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Change /myco.com/example.com/ since the latter is reserved exactly for

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this type of thing, instead of rolling our own example domainnames as
in rev 1.53 of this file.

Suggested by:	ceri
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Giorgos Keramidas 2002-08-25 00:54:57 +00:00
parent d682d8e008
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Notes: svn2git 2020-12-08 03:00:23 +00:00 
svn path=/head/; revision=14006
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@ -804,22 +804,23 @@ to /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.</programlisting>
UUCP.</para>
<para>Another way is to get a full-time Internet server to provide secondary MX
services for your domain. For example:</para>
services for your domain. For example, if your company's domain is
<hostid>example.com</hostid>:</para>
<programlisting>myco.com. MX 10 myco.com.
<programlisting>example.com. MX 10 example.com.
MX 20 myisp.com.</programlisting>
<para>Only one host should be specified as the final recipient
(add <literal>Cw myco.com</literal> in
<filename>/etc/mail/sendmail.cf</filename> on <hostid role="domainname">myco.com</hostid>).</para>
(add <literal>Cw example.com</literal> in
<filename>/etc/mail/sendmail.cf</filename> on <hostid role="domainname">example.com</hostid>).</para>
<para>When the sending <command>sendmail</command> is trying to
deliver the mail it will try to connect to you (<hostid role="domainname">myco.com</hostid>) over the modem
deliver the mail it will try to connect to you (<hostid role="domainname">example.com</hostid>) over the modem
link. It will most likely time out because you are not online.
<application>Sendmail</application> will automatically deliver it to the
secondary MX site, i.e. your Internet provider (<hostid role="domainname">myisp.com</hostid>). The secondary MX
site will then periodically try to connect to
your host and deliver the mail to the primary MX host (<hostid role="domainname">myco.com</hostid>).</para>
your host and deliver the mail to the primary MX host (<hostid role="domainname">example.com</hostid>).</para>
<para>You might want to use something like this as a login
script.</para>
@ -830,9 +831,9 @@ to /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.</programlisting>
/usr/sbin/ppp -direct pppmyisp</programlisting>
<para>If you are going to create a separate login script for a
user you could use <command>sendmail -qRmyco.com</command>
user you could use <command>sendmail -qRexample.com</command>
instead in the script above. This will force all mail in your
queue for myco.com to be processed immediately.</para>
queue for <hostid role="domainname">example.com</hostid> to be processed immediately.</para>
<para>A further refinement of the situation is as follows.</para>