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- From: mjo@snclib.snc.edu (Mike O'Connor)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: help on resolving addresses with sendmail?!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.134516.1526@meteor.wisc.edu>
- Date: 6 Sep 92 13:45:16 GMT
- References: <4SEP199213370413@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu>
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- Reply-To: Mike O'Connor <mjo@snclib.snc.edu>
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- In article <4SEP199213370413@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu>
- umarsa00@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (PROF. A.S. UMAR, (615)322-2459) writes:
-
- :having problems with addresses that have extension .com . For example I am
- :trying to send mail to
- : ghost@aladdin.com
- :which is the address for the ghostscript problems. My rs/6000 immediately
- :comes back with host unknown. When I use the gmail utility on a vax the
- :mail is delivered. What am I doing wrong?
-
- The problem is with your sendmail -- it doesn't understand how to
- resolve MX records. MX records are used to make email addresses
- for machines that may not be directly on the Internet.
-
- In the interim, you can probably get your mail to ghost@aladdin.com
- by sending to one of the following addresses:
-
- ghost%aladdin.com@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (routing through your "smarter" VAX)
- ghost%aladdin.com@uunet.uu.net (routing through UUNET, center of the universe)
- ghost%aladdin.com@uucp-gw-1.pa.dec.com (routing through aladdin's mail handler)
-
- Now there's probably some twisty little token tweak somewhere that
- makes IBM's sendmail know how to handle MX records, and I imagine
- that someone will post "Oh, you have to do such-and-such and rebuild
- this frozen configuration and kill and restart the magic poofdahs
- and whammo zammo bammo everything works!" Or...
-
- You can FTP smail 3.1.26. (Check archie for sites -- I got it from
- ftp.uu.net.) smail is a replacement for sendmail, and my experience
- with local admins is that smail works and that rules files are typically
- a few comprehensible lines, not 15k of obscure tokens.
-
- #include <asbestos.h>
-
-
- --
- Mike O'Connor
- "The NNTP Administrator"
- <mjo@snclib.snc.edu>
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