one question tho, is it possible to have more than one route for something
in smtproutes, ie:
aol.com:la-me.mx.aol.com
aol.com:du-mb.mx.aol.com
...
?
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|Greg Albrecht KF4MKT [EMAIL PROTECTED]|
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On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Keith Burdis wrote:
>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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>Keith Burdis - MSc (Com Sci) - Rhodes University, South Africa
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>
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