On Sat 1999-04-03 (14:41), Bill Parker wrote:
> >
> >There are a couple of things you can do. One is to patch qmail with one of
> the
> >large DNS packet patches, which you'll find on the qmail web site. The other,
> >easier thing to do is to look up the mail exchangers for aol.com and stick
> one
> >of them in your smtproutes file, like so:
> >
> >aol.com:yc.mx.aol.com
> >
>
> Ummmm, i looked in controls (and I don't have a smtproutes file), is this
> where it goes (we need O'Reilly to publish a qmail book which covers all
> this neat stuff in simple plain english)...<IMO>
Well you're in luck. Russell Nelson is busy with one at the moment. Should be
out in a few months.
> -Bill
>
> p.s. - will smtproutes cause any problems with std mail delivery?
Yes, smtproutes goes in the control directory (man qmail-control). Basically,
as I understand it, if you list a host or domain in smtproutes qmail will not
do a DNS lookup to find out where to deliver the mail, it will use the host
that you specify instead.
So, to get around the fact that AOL returns large DNS packets when qmail does
an MX lookup, the suggestion was to hardcode one of AOL's mail servers as the
destination for all aol mail and thereby avoid doing the DNS lookups.
> >Chris
- Keith
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