[luau] sendmail question

[Ho'ala Greevy]

mahalo vince, will cram postfix tonight, implementation is tomorrow.  will
let you know how it goes....

-ho'ala


Vince Hoang said:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 05:10:54PM -1000, Ho'ala Greevy wrote:
>> On a private, non-routed network, is there a way to create
>> some sort of hosts entry for a domain name that sendmail will
>> acknowledge?
>
> OK. RFC1918.
>
>> For example, say I wanted sendmail to send all mail destined
>> for @somemail.com to a private IP of 192.168.1.254. Is there
>> a way to do this in sendmail? I tried creating the entry in
>> /etc/hosts but apparently sendmail didn't pay it no mind. I'd
>> prefer to use qmail, but in this case I need to use sendmail. I
>> can probably solve this with bind, but I'd prefer sendmail to
>> do it.
>
> I would normally suggest setting up split-brained DNS to handle
> internal name resolution. But..
>
> Lookup mailertable. I think the rule should be something like:
> mydomain.com            smtp:[192.168.1.254]
>
> Be sure to upgrade sendmail, because the recent overflow can
> reach internal hosts. While I am at it, a plug for postfix: it is
> a drop in replacement, and the transport map is documented very
> well for this behavior.
>
> Bind and sendmail. Ugh.
>
> -Vince
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