On 2006-10-18 14:12, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is only for sendmail *wizards* out there. It took me two > hours of messing round with the /etc/mail/* files on ns1|sage > before I just gave up. After I rebooted both servers to get mail > to default to tao. > > After my first "fatal trap" on 01 Sept, I changed (uncommented) my > ^Cw tao.thought.org > line on sage's sendmail.cf to get mail going to sage rather than tao. > I do realize that this Cw line means: route all mail for "tao" to > localhost, which here was sage. With this Cw commented out, mail > for [EMAIL PROTECTED] was routed to tao. Uncommented, and mail > stayed in sage.thought.org. > > My one question is given that mail defaults to my > ns1.thought.org, HOW can I get it to go to (say) zen.thought.org, > or to tao.thought.org? or to ethos.thought.org? OR what > re-initialization do I have to do? other than a shutdown -r > now?? > > I thought I had this down cold, but nope..... > > gary > > PS: Mail from my magnesium.net account mailed explicitedly to > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], or [EMAIL PROTECTED] other > words, using the FQDN-- gets to which ever server. But how > do I make "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" reach a specific server?? > > PS: Apologizes if this seems like an obscure question; it IS....
By setting the "MX" records for `thought.org' up so that the one with the lowest value of them all points to that specific server. This should be configured in the name-server which hosts the DNS zone for `thought.org'. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
