Mail Archiving (OT)

Fri Apr 8 22:31:52 IST 2005

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of chardlist
> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 5:10 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Mail Archiving (OT)
>
> I'm working with the "forward" command in a delivery ruleset for
> MailScanner.  I have the actual ruleset working just fine.  However, the
> archiving company that I have to forward the e-mail copies to has a bit of
> a
> strange setup.
>
> Here's the scenario:
>
> Let's say I have to forward the e-mail copies to archive at archivedomain.com
>
> But archivedomain.com does not actually have any A records.  Further, it
> has
> 4 MX records that all point to bogus IP addresses.
>
> I have been given the actual IP address and now have the responsibility of
> configuring my server to ignore the public (bogus) DNS records and deliver
> any mail that is addressed to archive at archivedomain.com to the IP address
> I've been given.
>
> I'm running FreeBSD 4.7 with Sendmail 8.13.1
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> -Brendan
>
Brendan,

This is ugly since Sendmail really really likes to use DNS data. The
simplest way might be to set up a DNS server with internal and external
views. The internal view would have "faked" entries for the MX records for
archivedomain.com that point to the IP addresses they provided you.

Steve

Steve Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
Phone: 202 338-1670
Cell: 202 352-3262
www.fsl.com
steve.swaney at fsl.com

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