Use the following procedure to configure a domain mail server using
mailbox records.
- Define a mailbox (MB) record for each user in the domain. Add entries
such as:
sam IN MB orange.widget.com.
to
the /usr/local/domain/named.abc.data file on host brown.widget.com.
These entries identify to the mail server black.widget.com where
to send mail for each user in the domain.
- Configure the sendmail daemon on the mail server
black.widget.com to
use the MB records defined in the name server brown.widget.com.
Use the NameServOpt option.
- Increment the serial number in the SOA Resource Record, because
the database has been modified.
- Refresh the name server database by running the
refresh
-s named command.
- Type the
refresh -s sendmail command to make the
changes take effect.