7 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-usersRE: [courier-users] Re: esmtproutes a...
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Bowie BaileyJun 25, 2004 8:33 am 
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Subject:RE: [courier-users] Re: esmtproutes and A/MX recordsActions...
From:Bowie Bailey (Bowi@BUC.com)
Date:Jun 28, 2004 7:39:41 am
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users

From: Sam Varshavchik [mailto:mrs@courier-mta.com]

Bowie Bailey writes:

I need to send my outbound email to "mail.bellsouth.net", however there are also MX records for this machine which point to machines that will not relay for me.

Is there any way to specify to esmptroutes to use only the A records? I hardcoded one of the IP addresses in the file and it works fine, but I don't like that solution because it's going to break if they change the IP addresses of their mail servers or remove the one I'm using.

These are the DNS responses I get:

mail.bellsouth.net. 6617 IN MX 0 mx00.mail.bellsouth.net. mail.bellsouth.net. 6617 IN MX 0 mx01.mail.bellsouth.net. mail.bellsouth.net. 3487 IN A 205.152.59.17 mail.bellsouth.net. 3487 IN A 205.152.59.16

mx00.mail.bellsouth.net. 6617 IN A 205.152.59.32 mx01.mail.bellsouth.net. 6617 IN A 205.152.59.33

You can explicitly specify 'mx00.mail.bellsouth.net' in esmtproutes.

Yes, but that won't work because mx00 and mx01 will not relay mail for me. I need to send the mail to 'mail.bellsouth.net'. This means it has to get to either 205.152.59.16 or 205.152.59.17. Is there any way to do this without hardcoding one of those two IPs?

Bowie