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Re: HESIOD type=maildrop class=IN, Sendmail

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Wed Jan 28 22:30:36 1998

To: Russell McOrmond <russell@flora.ottawa.on.ca>
Cc: hesiod@MIT.EDU, maildomain@flora.org
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com>
Date: 28 Jan 1998 22:29:59 -0500
In-Reply-To: Russell McOrmond's message of "Fri, 23 Jan 1998 00:06:14 -0500 (EST)"


Russell McOrmond <russell@flora.ottawa.on.ca> writes:

> Note: For those who didn't know, I am using HESIOD with type=maildrop to 
> do 'email forwarding'.  The TXT information is just another Email 
> address, and it is used directly by a sendmail MAP with some simple 
> rules.  Some initial documentation of what I'm doing is at 
> http://www.flora.org/flora/server/maildomain.html   - I will be updating 
> this soon to be more complete and up-to-date.

Isn't this what the DNS "MAILB" query was intended for?  (I'm having
trouble with the ohio-state rfc web server, so I'm having trouble
getting info on it, like whether it's been made obsolete...)

Ken

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