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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: MX mix up
- In-Reply-To: kline@head-cfa.harvard.edu's message of 21 Jan 93 23:21:03 GMT
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
- References: <1993Jan21.232103.6088@cfa245.harvard.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:30:28 GMT
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- DK> == Doug Kline <kline@head-cfa.harvard.edu>
-
- DK> We have been experiencing difficulties with MX records.
-
- DK> In the case of a couple of nodes for which MX records have been
- DK> installed if sendmail is not running on those nodes, the e-mail
- DK> addressed to them is sent to the other node to which it should be sent
- DK> but, instead of staying there or being forwarded to some third node,
- DK> it is held in defered status on that node, addressed to the node to
- DK> which it was originally addressed and not deliverable.
-
- The lowest preference MX is responsible for making "final" delivery. If
- (as it seems here) it should deliver the mail locally, the MX host's
- sendmail needs to be configured to treat mail for its MX clients as local
- mail. (Other cases might include UUCP queueing, FAXing, or carrier pigeon
- delivery.)
-
- In the case of IDA sendmail, you may want to declare either PSEUDONYMS or
- ALTERNATENAMES, or declare the use of the LOCAL mailer in mailertable.
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