On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Dave Sill wrote:
> Does the system qmail is running on have unrestricted access to the
> Internet? If so, it should be able to contact remote sites
> directly. If not, you should use control/smtproutes. Something like:
no, it doesn't there are firewall filters in place which block amongst
other things SMTP, SNMP, IRC and AOL IM.
>
> .salford.ac.uk:
> salford.ac.uk:
> :post.salford.ac.uk
>
> Which says "deliver mail to *@*salford.ac.uk directly, forward
> everything else to post.salford.ac.uk".
from my (inside) knowledge of the DNS all of the dns entries will say send
mail to post.salford.ac.uk as the lowest priority entry anyway, so i'd
avoid all DNS lookups and just send to post -- which is in reality three
systems so don't put the domain literal adderss of one of them in there
RjL
