Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:4615 comp.mail.misc:3629 news.admin:9910 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!pacbell.com!pacbell!att!mcdchg!laidbak!obdient!yclept!root From: root@yclept.chi.il.us (Root) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.misc,news.admin Subject: Re: Question about From: lines Summary: Older versions of sendmail do not handle MX records Keywords: sendmail MX Message-ID: <465@yclept.chi.il.us> Date: 4 Jul 90 04:57:32 GMT References: <9065.266fb514@pbs.uucp> <9121.267378ce@pbs.uucp> Reply-To: root@yclept.UUCP (Root) Followup-To: comp.mail.uucp Organization: Leptons and Quarks, Winfield, IL 60190-1412 Lines: 21 In article fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes: [These comments have been heavily abbreviated.] +In fact, I'm surprised that there are "many" hosts +still left that don't handle MXs. Independent of UUCP gateways, there +are lots of hosts that really are on the Internet but have MX records for +themselves pointing to other hosts (because they don't run sendmail +daemons or whatever). These machines wouldn't be able to get mail from +MX-ignorant hosts either. + +--- +Tom Fitzgerald Wang Labs fitz@wang.com +1-508-967-5278 Lowell MA, USA ...!uunet!wang!fitz I have seen in recently distributed operating systems, versions of sendmail, should as 5.14, that do not appear to handle MX records. I have replaced sendmail on several machines with version 5.64 to obtain MX record capacity. Randolph J. Herber, @ home: {att|mcdchg|laidbak|clout|obdient|wheaton}!yclept!rjh, rjh@yclept.chi.il.us