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- From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
- Subject: Re: IDA: hostnames vs. MX records
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.175231.8323@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Organization: Northern Illinois University
- References: <rhoward.716221816@matd>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:52:31 GMT
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- In article <rhoward.716221816@matd> rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes:
- >
- >Sending to 'foobar@gtri.gatech.edu' works too. It's 'foobar@gtri' that
- >fails. In this case no ruleset (including 8) tries to attach a
- >'.gatech.edu' to the end. Thus, sendmail just punts to the campus
- >central mail server (which happens to be gatech.edu). The typescript
- >of the 4 example addresses are attached followed by my M4 file.
-
- You can change this by recompiling sendmail with NO_WILDCARD_MX defined
- in conf.h . However I don't recommend doing so, for if anybody ever
- adds a wildcard MX record to your nameserver, sendmail will start adding
- your domain name to everything (as in 'uunet.uu.net.gatech.edu').
-
- A better approach is to start using a DOMAINTABLE, with an entry to
- map 'gtri' to 'gtri.gatech.edu'.
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