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- From: imd1707@ggr.co.uk (Ian Dunkin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Mail ingenuity
- Message-ID: <32574@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 21:48:08 GMT
- Sender: news@adm.brl.mil
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- > So: what black magic does Mail or sendmail (or whomever) use to
- > associate "edison.adm.tuns.ca" with "tuns.ca"?
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- Your sendmail uses an `MX record' offered by a Domain Name Server on the
- Internet, which tells it to send mail for tuns.ca to (via)
- edison.adm.tuns.ca.
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- > Why can't these other
- > network programs do the same?
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- MX records are for mail routing, not for other protocols.
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- I.
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- Ian Dunkin, GGR
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- imd1707@ggr.co.uk
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