Hi Mukund Thanks, although that would lead to some issues for anyone using multiple domain controllers in Active Directory that have their internal domain name set to the same as their external domain name.
What would happen in that case is that the openfiler box would try to find an MX record for the domain in question, which (by default at least) wouldn't exist as AD doesn't create any MX records. When it didn't find that it would use the A record, which in AD round-robins between all the domain controllers. Obviously they won't all be running MTA's and so delivery would fail. Setting an MX record internally would get around this but that probably only covers some of the possible fringe cases. Although in saying that I can't think of any others ;) Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: Mukund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 16 August 2006 10:02 p.m. > To: Dave Watkins > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OF-users] Email server configuration > > Hi Dave > > On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 16:05 +1200, Dave Watkins wrote: > > My only remaining question is asked in this thread but > never answered > > as far as I can tell > > > > > https://lists.openfiler.com/pipermail/openfiler-users/2006-March/00140 > > 8.html > > > > Whilst you can enter an email address how does the openfiler server > > know how/where to route that email too without also asking > for an SMTP > > server? I haven't actually had a chance to try this and see if there > > Openfiler has its own SMTP server (Sendmail) running locally > which directly delivers mail to the target MTA. So if you > have outgoing Internet connectivity (through NAT or something > else, as you should do to yum update packages), it'll deliver > emails straight away. > > Mukund > > > > _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users
