difficult problem with DNS and Mail

[Gary Kline]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:26:50PM -0400, Kevin Darcy wrote:
> 
> You can call the nameserver anything you want. Just make sure you keep the nameserver
> name(s) and address(s) in synch between what you publish from the zone and what your
> registrar provides to the TLD servers. Otherwise you're asking for trouble -- you too
> could join the ranks of the loathed and despised delegation-botchers :-).

	Egad!  No, no, I promise :)   --I had a lot of up-front help
	with this stuff from those who came before; including our sysadmin
	at work.  It was a jumping-off point  and I've been very careful
	to *not* get out of sync.   So after I've clued in about the
	sendmail stuff, I'll be that much closer to getting it right
	the first time.  ...Well, maybe second time!
> 
> As for "mailhub" (or, more accurately, MAIL_HUB), see the cf/README file in the
> sendmail distribution for the basic rundown of how it works and how to configure it.
> If you have more complex requirements, you may want to go to something like
> mailertables, virtusertable or LDAP-based routing instead. But it sounds like all you
> need is a "punt" for inbound mail.
> 

	Thanks for the datapoints.  Looks like I've got some sendmail 
	reading to do.  Right now, the main feature I use is access.db
	to keep the SPAM down.  

	gary

> 

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