Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!ginosko!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!cmcl2!yale!cs.yale.edu!anselmo-ed From: anselmo-ed@cs.yale.edu (Ed Anselmo) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: MX and Domain Wildcarding With IDA Sendmail? Message-ID: Date: 10 Oct 89 19:42:08 GMT References: <4160@itivax.iti.org> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 33 In-reply-to: scs@itivax.iti.org's message of 10 Oct 89 17:11:14 GMT On 10 Oct 89 17:11:14 GMT, scs@itivax.iti.org (Steve Simmons) said: Steve> Suppose we have a domain, mi.org. Suppose we convince the NIC to Steve> point *.mi.org at us. Using IDA sendmail, we set up a bunch of Steve> table entries that go: Steve> foo.mi.org -> foo, deliver via UUCP. Steve> What would be nice is to have some pattern matching/substitution, Steve> so that *.mi.org would always resolve to '*' (ie, stripping the Steve> mi.org) unless there was an explicit match (we have cases where Steve> 'foo.mi.org' has the uucpname 'bar'). cardiology.ummc.umich.edu runs the mi.org nameserver. You can configure the MX records any old way you'd like, without intervention from the NIC. Just tell the person who runs the mi.org nameserver. Of course, mi.us is another story. I never found any way to do the regexp matching, but then again, it's not that hard to do the mapping *IF* the host is directly connected to the MX forwarder. The thing that I could never get IDA to do was MX for hosts that weren't directly connected to the forwarder. It looks do-able with a little hacking on the sendmail.cf. But this depends on intermediate hosts not mucking with things and causing nasty loops. Steve> In a similar Something missing here? -- Ed Anselmo anselmo-ed@cs.yale.edu {harvard,decvax}!yale!anselmo-ed