Correct.
In the first case, you probably should specify an account and password
for authentication (aka smart host).
In the 2nd case, I'm not sure if the named DNS record can be an MX or
CNAME or not (you wouldn't want to use an MX name in your situation
anyhow). I know that a type A record works fine though.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
On 09/29/2011 10:30 AM, Tim Pleiman wrote:
Yes, the "smtphosts" file seems to be some sort of mistake that's
published in places.
So then with smtproutes, it can serve two purposes:
1. To relay all outbound mail through a trusted host, via:
:mail.somedomain.com
or
2. To relay/send selected mail to a specific domain, bypassing an MX
lookup via:
somedomain.com:mx-static-record-for-somedomain.com
Correct?
Just wanting to confirm because I've never needed to use the second option.
Thanks,
Tim
On Thu, September 29, 2011 11:58 am, Eric Shubert wrote:
On 09/29/2011 09:48 AM, Tim Pleiman wrote:
To anyone who might know,
I find various online references to a qmail control file:
/var/qmail/control/smtphosts
that is not generally used in all qmail installations, whereby:
"If the file
/var/qmail/control/smtphosts
exists and contains an entry for hisdomain.com, qmail will not perform a
DNS MX-lookup to figure out the mail server for hisdomain.com; it will
use
the one specified there, such as:
.hisdomain.com:pop2.hisdomain.com
Otherwise, qmail will perform a DNS/MX lookup."
The reason I ask has to do with something I mentioned earlier concerning
mail client lookups of mx records returning "451--DNS temporary failure"
and stubbornly refusing to place such messages in the queue even though
I
know the message will be delivered.
I'm having periodic trouble with a couple of Chinese DNS mx lookups (as
they fool around with their DNS servers over there), and if the above is
working in qmailtoaster, then that will alleviate this problem on
specific
domains entirely without having to disable the CHKUSER feature that
prevents such messages from being queued.
Thanks!
Tim
This sounds like the /var/qmail/control/smtproutes file in QMT:
http://wiki.qmailtoaster.com/index.php/Smtproutes
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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