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- From: mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF])
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: AIX sendmail bug
- Message-ID: <By0u4q.4zA@math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 15:38:48 GMT
- References: <BxvGCI.6GC@math.uwaterloo.ca> <1992Nov19.171604.28018@selway.umt.edu>
- Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, University of Waterloo, Canada
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- mcguire@selway.umt.edu (Charles J McGuire) writes:
- >mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF]) writes:
- >>The stock sendmail on AIX doesn't appear to honour MX record
- >>references when "OK ALL" is used as an option. Are there any known bugs with
- >>MX record handling in AIX sendmail?
- >>
- >I use OK ALL at AIX 3.2, and my sendmail does use MX records to route
- >mail. When I make changes, I run /usr/lib/sendmail -bz to rebuild
- >the sendmail frozen config file, then run refresh -s sendmail to
- >rehup sendmail.
-
- I managed to reduce the problem to the case where an MX record exists for
- a host, and a user on that host sends mail to another user on the same host.
- For local delivery, AIX sendmail ignores MX records and goes straight
- to the local mailer. So the solution is to short-circuit the delivery and
- force all deliveries for such hosts to go to some central host by changing
- the sendmail.cf to do so.
-
- (The central host would be the one exporting mail directories.)
-
- Is this standard sendmail behaviour, or is this AIX-specific?
-
- -- Murray S. Kucherawy ----------------------------------------+--------------
- Software Systems Co-op, Math Faculty Computing Facility [MFCF] | All spelling
- University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada | errors caused
- E-mail: mskucherawy@{math,watdragon}.UWaterloo.ca | by Pnews.
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