a new sendmail question

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Mon Dec 17 14:44:56 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 08:25 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> I would claim that you do have a domain. The domain of the external
> interface of your router. 

Hmm, claiming your ISP's domain as if it were your own can be a problem.
All's fine and well if you simply use it with your e-mail addresses
provided by your ISP.  But something like using root@ your ISP's domain
name would be a major no-no.

You'd have to be very careful about keeping internal mail internal.
That, pretty much, means you need to run your own DNS server, so that a
mailserver doesn't to a MX lookup on the domain, using the ISP's name
server, and send the message through the ISP's SMTP server.

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