[TriLUG] sendmail, mailman, and mm-handler

bp bp at itchy.kicks-ass.org
Fri Aug 22 09:04:37 EDT 2003


On 21 Aug 2003, Jon Carnes wrote:

> My guess is that you don't have the DNS entries setup right for the
> domain.  You need to set the MX record in the DNS for the mail to be
> delivered properly.

Why would an MX record be necessary if the domain name resolves to 
the same host that receives mail?  (Ryan, does your org use a single IP 
for the outside world?)

>From what I've read on dyndns.org and other places you only need MX records when domain.com resolves to a host 
that doesn't accept your mail, like when you have a mail.domain.com that 
is a seperate IP/box.

-bp









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