Re: the mysterious ".smtp" TLD

[Neil Herber]

It is rumored that on or about 2003-01-08 12:09 PM -0800, Mark Hartman wrote as follows:

At 2:45 PM -0500 1/8/03, Neil Herber wrote:

In a recent SIMS discussion it was suggested that the router entry:

domain.com = domain.com.smtp

would be sufficient to redirect mail from a secondary (domain.com) to a primary (domain.com.smtp) server.

Unless I am sadly mistaken, there is no top level domain "smtp", and what the author meant to say was:

domain.com = smtp.domain.com

Nope.

The ".smtp" suffix is internal to SIMS, and indicates that our server will
accept and relay for the given host.  This is generally used on a SIMS box
which is a secondary MX; for example, I am secondary MX for several domains
which I have no other relationship to, and have similar entries in my
router.

FWIW.

Regards
Mark Hartman

Mark

Thanks for the explanation. Does this appear in the SIMS docs somewhere?

If there were 3 hosts:
host1.com
host2.com
host3.com

And if host3 was the secondary MX for host1 and host2, would host3 have the following router entries?

host1.com = host1.com.smtp
host2.com = host2.com.smtp

Do host1 and host2 need any router entries or client host list entries for this to work?

Thanks to Christopher Bort as well - his email explaining this came in while I was typing.
--
Neil

Neil Herber
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