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 -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.6.6-1.435.2.3 Serendipity 18:20:06 up 2 days, 28 users, load average: 0.23, 0.24,
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