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RE: Mail routing

#282
From: John F. Sandhoff
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 22:27
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>> I'd like to have E-mails sent to any node on my domain to be routed
>> through my MX node called STROPH.

> What's called for are a list of the exceptions, known only to stroph, where
> the name server isn't used.
>
> DEFINE PATH "node1"                    SMTP/ROUTE="node1.univ-st-etienne.fr"
> DEFINE PATH "node1.univ-st-etienne.fr" SMTP/ROUTE="node1.univ-st-etienne.fr"

Almost. You need to define all possible names as LOCAL. For example, on
my cluster of five CPU's here's a snippet of MCP SHOW:

Domain-to-path mappings:
  Domain="ccvax1.ccs.csus.edu", Path=Local
  Domain="ccvax1.csus.edu", Path=Local
  Domain="ccvax1", Path=Local
  Domain="[130.86.89.1]", Path=Local
  Domain="ccvax2.ccs.csus.edu", Path=Local
  Domain="ccvax2.csus.edu", Path=Local
  Domain="ccvax2", Path=Local
  Domain="[130.86.89.2]", Path=Local

I then use MX records in the Domain Name Service config file to point all
of these machines (ccvax1, ccvax2...) to the actual machine running the
SMTP_Server.

And as was mentioned, ORDER IS IMPORTANT. These must come before the
wildcards!

Hope this helps...

    John F. Sandhoff, University Network Support
      California State University, Sacramento - USA
        sandhoff@csus.edu
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From: "John F. Sandhoff" <syssand@CCVAX.CCS.CSUS.EDU>
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
Subject: RE: Mail routing
Message-ID: <00963368.088EF3C0.26171@CCVAX.CCS.CSUS.EDU>
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 14:27:21 PST
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