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From: pafford@dg-rtp.dg.com (Randy Pafford)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Can sendmail use BIND MB records?
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Date: 22 Aug 90 20:14:59 GMT
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In article <3220@awdprime.UUCP>, jeffe@sandino.austin.ibm.com (Peter
Jeffe 512.823.4091) writes:
|> In article <207@ssg0.pharmacia.com> petej@ssg0.pharmacia.com (Peter
M. Jansson) writes:
|> >We have a small network running BIND and sendmail, and I'd like to
be able
|> >to address mail to a user and have it arrive on that user's "home"
machine.
|> >I know that I can have a .forward file on each system for each user
to get
|> >the mail to the home machine, but this seems like more work than
necessary.
|> >BIND accepts MB records; will sendmail(v5.59) use them to route mail
in a zone?
|> >It seems logical that I'd set up the primary server with MB records
for
|> >each user, and sendmail would notice them, but I can't figure out
how to do
|> >this.
|> 
|> It is *very* logical, and that's the idea of the MB and MG records,
but
|> unfortunately your sendmail doesn't deal with them.  At least up to
5.61,
|> all it knows to do is query for MX records for the recipient hosts. 
The
|> sendmail in IBM's AIX 3.1 does support MB, MG, and MR records, but I
|> haven't heard of another one that does.  That surprises me,
considering how
|> simple and useful a feature it is.

There is such a sendmail available. Dan Oscarsson, in
the Department of Computer Science at the Lund Institute
of Technology in Sweden distributes a sendmail that
supports MB, MG, and MR records.  It also includes support
for international character sets.  If you're really
interested, you could send him mail at Dan@dna.lth.se.
The sendmail I know about is 5.61 + IDA 1.2.8 plus
his enhancements.

Randy Pafford
Data General Corporation 
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Research Triangle Park, NC 27707
pafford@rtp.dg.com
(919) 248-6055