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From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: wildcard MX records
Date: 18 Mar 1994 16:35:00 -0500
Organization: Penn State Population Research Institute
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In article <2mcg9d$68s@zappa.ruhr.de>,
Jan-Hinrich Fessel <oskar@zappa.Ruhr.DE> wrote:
>I have a local Network connected to the outside via UUCP for now.
>So I cannot update my local Nameserver with the Class 1 domains.
>For now I must lookup all names outside of my domain via
>a mailertable lookup (sendmail 8.6.5) instead of using plain simple
>canonicalization via DNS.  I have an entry like this :
>
>*.		IN	MX	0	uugate

While sendmail v8 was not designed with this setup in mind, it should
be pretty simple to configure the sendmail.cf to forward all non-local
mail to your upstream smarthost for delivery.

There's no need to kludge DNS here.

--Dave
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