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- From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
- Subject: Re: MX records for localhost
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.162936.15720@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Organization: Northern Illinois University
- References: <BxzHJs.B2v@math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:29:36 GMT
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- In article <BxzHJs.B2v@math.uwaterloo.ca> mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF]) writes:
- >What's sendmail on host "A" supposed to do if its nameserver advertises
- >an MX record for "A", and a user on "A" sends to another user on "A"?
- >Should it send to the address indicated by the MX record, or should it
- >just do the delivery?
-
- Surely that is a local implementation decision.
-
- If the purpose of the MX record is to have outside mail sent to a gateway
- which can forward it, then the host itself would ignore the MX. If
- the MX points to a mailhost from which the mail spool files are mounted,
- you might prefer to follow the MX so that deliveries are always done
- on the machine where the mail spool sits.
-
- The default is usually to ignore the MX, and send to the local mailer,
- but this could be overridden by rules changes in ruleset 0.
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