[Wolves] Frigging (with) Sendmail

Andy Wootton andy.wootton at wyrley.demon.co.uk
Mon Jul 25 22:56:16 BST 2005


David Goodwin wrote:

>>DNS MX (Mail Exchange) records are what I was talking about.
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>>
>
>They're used to figure out where to deliver mail to (e.g. for
>mail sent to david at codepoets.co.uk, your local SMTP server will do a NS
>lookup on the MX records for codepoets.co.uk; it will find that there
>are 3, and will start off trying to talk to the server with the lowest
>priority. If that fails, it will try with the next highest and so on).
>
>This isn't relevant for Adam's problem, as he's trying to disguise who
>he appears to be sending mail as ( i think ) (hence sendmail -f)
>
>(Using sendmail -f is a bit ugly as you see a message in the email
>headers about it)
>
>
>David.
>  
>
I think there are 2 questions. I was only trying to help with the first 
bit. If all three use the same outgoing address then replies get 
distributed as you suggest then (in a cluster) you are sorted. I think 
you might be able to fake this with a shared file system.

Woo



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