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- From: wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman)
- Subject: Re: I want to be able to use MX records on IBM AIX
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.180032.4365@uvm.edu>
- Sender: news@uvm.edu
- Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility
- References: <1993Jan26.195437.25987@athena.mit.edu> <2140@coyote.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:00:32 GMT
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- In article <2140@coyote.UUCP> drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com (Sam Drake) writes:
- >Look at /usr/lib/sendmail.cf, and make sure that the setting for "OK" is
- >what you want. The AIX sendmail can indeed use MX records, if OK is set
- >to request it.
-
- Quoth RFC 1123, ``Requirements for Internet Hosts'':
-
- 5.3.5 Domain Name Support
-
- SMTP implementations MUST use the mechanism defined in Section
- 6.1 for mapping between domain names and IP addresses. This
- means that every Internet SMTP MUST include support for the
- Internet DNS.
-
- In particular, a sender-SMTP MUST support the MX record scheme
- [SMTP:3]. See also Section 7.4 of [DNS:2] for information on
- domain name support for SMTP.
-
- It's time for IBM to stop fooling around on this one. MX PROCESSING
- IS *****NOT***** AN OPTION!
-
- -GAWollman
-
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