Wildcard records???

[Daniel Wittenberg]

I haven't checked into this, but you might be able to put a *.com.company.com in
your sendmail.cw, so anything coming into that would be acceptable.  I don't
know for sure if this is possible, but might be worth looking into.

Dan

jeremy at xxedgexx.com wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Is there any safe way to create a wild card record.  I just start working
> for a new company and they have a * in their record which appears to be
> causing a lot of problems with mail.  I've always stayed away from it
> cause I thought it was considered bad practice.
> 
> Problems we're having is with mail.  If we send mail to an invalid domain,
> it uses that name as a hostname.  For exmaple, I send mail to
> blah at ahahahahaha.com, it bounces but in the header we see this:
> 
> blah at ahahahahahaha.com.company.com
> 
> which is incorrect.  It causes load and unwanted behavior because no
> matter what address we put in place, it hits our smtp server because it
> put company.com at the end of any address.
> 
> Is there a safe way to use wildcard records, or do you think I should
> begin to convince them on getting rid of it.
> 
> Thanks
> -jeremy
> 
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