Pre-Summary:sendmail and mx-records

["Husemann, Harald" <harald.husemann@Materna.DE>]

Hi, and thanks to all who replied - so far:

Klaus-Peter Thiessen
Jim Carroll
Dusan Djordjevic
Brett Geer
Alistair Mann

(hpe I didn't forget someone - if so, pse excus!)

Most of you said it SHOULD work, and told me to use "sendmail -v" to check.
The problem seems to be that I completely whipped out the line
"DSsmartrelay.com", instead of just erasing the hostname...
I'll check that tomorrow, and send a real summary when it works (I think
so).
Another issue Alistair told me was that it's no problem to have another MTA
running on the same host and using a differnet port - I think I'll also try
this, at the moment I prefer postfix as the second one. Using this in the
office, and really like it - it's secure, it's fast, and easy to configure,
even for special issues like domain-based routing, virtual domains, etc.

Thanks for the fast help,

keep on hackin',

Harald

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Von: Husemann, Harald [mailto:harald.husemann@Materna.DE]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 25. Februar 2003 10:06
An: 'linuxmanagers@linuxmanagers.org'
Betreff: WG: sendmail and mx-records


Hi managers,

maybe this is a quite simple question, but can't figure it out... Searched
 the www, the sendmail-howto, and still have no idea what to do.
I just want my MTA, running sendmail (version $Id: proto.m4,v 8.247
 1999/02/20 21:58:33 ca due to sendmail.cf) on an old SuSE 6.4, to take care
 of MX-records when sending mail.
(YES, I know it's old - but I don't want to upgrade at the moment, it's a
really important machine...)
I have an ADSL-connection to the internet, so I don't want to use a
 mail-relay - just let my MTA process the mails and send it direct to the
 other MTAs. (Had some problems with my mail-relay in the past - used one of
 the german telekom, and they rewrite the sender adress to something not
very
 nice, :-) ) So, how can I tell sendmail to ask the DNS for the mx-record
for
 all domains, and send the mails to this MTA? Since I changed sendmail.cf
 myself, I don't want to rebuild it using m4 - just want to add one or more
 lines to sendmail.cf to get it working...
At the moment, when I switch off relaying, sendmail just sends the mail to
e.g. cityweb.de, without taking care of the MX-record, which points to
mail.cityweb.de - of course, this doesn't work.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help,

keep on hackin',

Harald

P.S.: Had to re-post this query from my office, since the relay I'm using
rewrites the sender adress (as stated above) - so, the mailman bounced my
post, 'cause he didn't found the sender address. Seems to be a serious
problem, so I'd like to resolve it...
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www:	www.deepthought.prima.de
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