On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> I had some problems with smtpgw.tab and dnscache stuff. > > A message was blocked because I'm sitting behind a dial-up > connection at home. Now I used a smtpgw.tab entry to > override the dns entries for this domain, but the message > still bounced because the dnscache entries were still > there (I restarted Xmail several times). > Then I removed the dnscache files for this domain and > it works as expected, the gateway was used. > > I think the smtpgw.tab entries should override the dnscache > settings (I guess this is already the way it goes), but > it doesn't work for me, even if I restart Xmail several > times. it overrides MXs even if i do not suggest you to use smtpgw.tab because not every SMTP server support explicit routing. just use smtpfwd.tab instead > That leads to another question, is the dnscache refreshed? > How often? Shouldn't it be cleaned from old entries, at > least if stopping and restarting Xmail? dnscache entries has the TTL returned by the dns server and this is used to expire them - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
