From: Sam Varshavchik [mailto:mrs...@courier-mta.com]
Bowie Bailey writes:
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?
No problem, just use mail01.mail.bellsouth.net.
That will work, and it's better than using an IP address, but that
still means that I can't use their "official" mail relay
(mail.bellsouth.net). At some point, they are going to change things
-- maybe remove mail00 and mail01 in favor of mail02 and mail03 -- and
my outbound mail is going to stop for a few days until I notice and
manage to figure out what happened. Since mail.bellsouth.net is their
official relay, hopefully they wouldn't change that without notifying
everyone first.
It would be nice to have some sort of interface so that I could
specify the mail relay server by name in esmtproutes without having to
worry about MX records.
Perhaps something like this?
:mail.bellsouth.net /NOMX
If it wasn't for all he paranoia over spam, I could avoid this problem
and let Courier deliver directly. But since I'm on a dialup IP (DSL),
too many servers reject me.
Bowie
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