Sendmail and SMTP AUTH
Alexander Dalloz
alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Fri Jul 9 16:22:41 UTC 2004
Am Fr, den 09.07.2004 schrieb Kenneth Porter um 18:16:
> >> I use define(`SMART_HOST',`[mail.bellsouth.net]') in
> >> sendmail.mc. This has been working well since long before FC2.
> >
> > Why the Bellsouth SMTP server in squared brackets?
>
> I haven't seen that done in SMART_HOST, but in mailertable the square
> brackets mean that the host is the actual SMTP host. Without them, sendmail
> does a DNS lookup on the name looking for an MX record, assuming that the
> name is an email domain, not a particular host.
Yes, I know what the squared bracket mean and normally are for in
Sendmail setups :) Just wanted to know by Bob why he thinks they have to
be there in his smart host definition.
Alexander
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