I can has clevernessesses

[Warning: please ignore unless you feel like indulging in Middle Techiespk]

I'm trying to rationalise the setup I have with the gateway mail servers at present, so that they don't rewrite the addresses that they are delivering to. We have a .com (the primary address) and a secondary .gov.au address for each mailbox. At present the default address is used for everything - if someone sends to the .gov.au address, it gets rewritten to the .com address. This seems to be slightly inefficient to me, and I was trying to rejig things so that all the address alternatives are treated in the same way, with no rewriting.

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So the fix was exceedingly simple - add my gateway servers to the list of machines that are permitted to relay "via" the Exchange servers. Ba-ding! Message delivery to the .gov.au addresses is now working perfectly.

Now I just have to test whether a bounce gets processed correctly - if the gateway servers don't think they're authoritative for the .gov.au domain either (although I have configured them to think so), they'll try to send it back to the Exchange servers or out to the Internet... where it will come back, and go around and around and around. This is called a "message loop" and it is a Very Bad Thing.

Astrology meme

Meme-age from micheinnz

Take the Wiki definition of your astrological sign. copy and paste it behind an LJ cut, and bold the statements that really agree with your personality. Reply to me saying you've done it so I can go look at yours!

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