Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!smoke.cs.toronto.edu!neat.cs.toronto.edu!lamy Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail From: lamy@cs.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy) Subject: Re: sendmail and MB records Message-ID: <90Mar15.205535est.377@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> Sender: Jean-Francois Lamy References: <1990Mar15.190444.14424@sobeco.com> Date: 16 Mar 90 01:56:41 GMT Lines: 17 stacy@sobeco.com (Stacy L. Millions) writes: >This may be a silly question (sendmail is just starting >to make sense to me), but is there a way to configure >sendmail to look up users via the MB records in the >nameserver? In all likelyhood you'd have to add this yourself. And also decide what you want the MB records to stand for. I don't think there is much established precedent for using MB records, so you pretty much get to decide for yourself -- I don't think any commonly available mailer would go querying a remote site asking it for its MB records and acting upon the received information though conceivably things like that could be done (analogously to the way MX records are currently handled. Jean-Francois Lamy lamy@cs.utoronto.ca, uunet!cs.utoronto.ca!lamy Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4