Linux-Hams archive - April 1997: RE: ? Adr masquarading with sendmail

RE: ? Adr masquarading with sendmail

Ingo Renner (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Sun, 13 Apr 1997 13:22:46 +0200 (MET DST)

Hallo Mike Bilow
On 11-Apr-97 you wrote:
>
>
>Ingo Renner wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
>
> IR> My server is doing all mail for me. Sending mail to
> IR> ampr.org, private.domain and internet. The problem is, that
> IR> I like to have sendmail to set the from: adr so that you can
> IR> reach me with a reply. Sending mail to ampr-net will take my
> IR> ampr.org adr, sending to the private-net whith my adr from
> IR> private-net and the internet adr for all other mail. In
> IR> germany it is not easy to reply to an internetadr through
> IR> ampr.org and the people in the private-net have the same
> IR> problem, because these domains should have no connection
> IR> between them, accept for some wormholes :-) . How did you
> IR> solve this problem ? But I want to keep my Linuxserver which
> IR> sendmail, because my other machine switches between
> IR> Dosgames, NT programming and Linux.
>
>Is there any legal or regulatory reason why you could not simply define more
>than one MX for your AMPR.ORG mail domain, one in AMPR.ORG that is more
>preferred and one outside it that is less preferred?
>

In germany we have some stupid laws that say ( and I hope I remember corectly
about the distance ) that your radio station is not not allowed to have any
direct contact with your telephone and the distance between the the radio
station and the antenne wire to the telephone cable has to be at least 1 meter.
But I don't think that many people care about this today. But as a result there
are no official, legal connections between ampr.org sites and other sites.

The other thing is: my own domain involves 2 Sites ( my server and my working
computer ) no dns is needed for mail MX. The domain in the House I'm living
uses one pop-server ( 2 guys whith linux and 9 with windows ) again 2 entrys in
mailertable ( one for pop and one for direct) and it is done without dns. All
my mail for ampr.org is sent directly and all other mail for internet goes to
my uucp relay host so again no dns.

I tried with dns, but running my own dns for ampr.org takes about 6MB of memory
and that is to much because as you can see, all my mail can be done without one
dns lookup. I'm now only running a small dns with the sites near my region to
save some work keeping two /etc/hosts up to date.

Ciao,
Ingo