Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!natmlab.dap.csiro.au!dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU!marka From: marka@dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU (Mark Andrews) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Sun 4.1 sendmail.mx doesn't Message-ID: <8400@natmlab.dap.csiro.au> Date: 5 Nov 90 23:39:02 GMT References: Sender: news@natmlab.dap.csiro.au Organization: CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics Lines: 31 In article josh@saba.cayman.com (Josh Littlefield) writes: |Has anyone else noticed that Sun 4.1's sendmail.mx doesn't actually |deal with MX records? All it seems to do is use the resolver instead |of YP, but it only seems to deal with A records, not MX. We've |retrofitted an older sendmail.mx (4.0.3?) to get around this. We also |noticed this in the "patched" version of sendmail.mx I grabbed from |somewhere last year to fix a domain macro bug. | |Am I just missing something in the setup? This seems like the kind of |bug people would tend to notice. | |-josh Sun compiled the 4.1 sendmail.mx with NOMXWILDCARD defined. This is most probably what you are being caught by. to get around this add a period after the fully qualified hostname in rulset zero. i.e. R$*<@$+>$* $#tcp $@ $2. $: $1@$2$3 The other solution is to get rid of the wildcard mx record for *.cayman.com. Sun do have an alternative version of sendmail.mx that you can get with this turned off, but they don't garentee to continue suppling such a version. Mark.