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[ILUG] Sendmail: Setting up a secondary MX

[ILUG] Sendmail: Setting up a secondary MX

Colm Buckley colm at tuatha.org
Tue Feb 20 17:19:36 GMT 2001


>> On recent sendmails, it's actually called "relay-domains", not
>> "sendmail.cR" - look in /etc/mail for these files.  My sendmail config
>> is so perverse these days that I've forgotten what the defaults were.
>> Apologies for any confusion.
 
> Or add 
> 
>    FEATURE(relay_based_on_MX)
> 
> to your sendmail.mc and rebuild the .cf.

Hum.

Probably a bad idea; this will allow relaying of every domain which
lists you as a secondary MX.  Quite a labour-saver, but it means that
you don't have any control over which domains you will relay for;
anyone could decide that they need a secondary MX and just use you...

       Colm (use postfix!)

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