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- From: roberts@nimrod.wpd.sgi.com (roberts)
- Subject: Re: IRIX sendmail MXing?
- Message-ID: <os1mn80@sgi.sgi.com>
- Sender: roberts@nimrod.wpd.sgi.com
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 19:42:36 GMT
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- Jim Reiss writes:
- > I am trying to set up a 4D/20 running IRIX 4.0.1 as an MX mail handler
- > for our site. We communicate with an Internet provider by UUCP, and
- > when mail comes in it is always delivered to the current host and not
- > whatever host it is addressed to (mail to jim@venus.accelr8.com or
- > jim@earth.accelr8.com goes to jim@saturn.accelr8.com).
-
- Are you saying that this is the problem or that this is the desired
- behaviour?
-
- > The sendmail.cf
- > file talks about looking up "MX records", but doesn't say how to set
- > such records up. So, how do I set up MX records? Thanks for any
- > information.
-
- MX records are a type of DNS (BIND) resource record. Check chapter 3
- of the IRIX Network Administration Guide (Document number 007-1437-010).
-
- - Robert Stephens
- Silicon Graphics Inc.
-
-