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From: jeffe@sandino.austin.ibm.com (Peter Jeffe 512.823.4091)
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Subject: Re: Can sendmail use BIND MB records?
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Date: 21 Aug 90 22:32:40 GMT
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In article <207@ssg0.pharmacia.com> petej@ssg0.pharmacia.com (Peter M. Jansson) writes:
>We have a small network running BIND and sendmail, and I'd like to be able
>to address mail to a user and have it arrive on that user's "home" machine.
>I know that I can have a .forward file on each system for each user to get
>the mail to the home machine, but this seems like more work than necessary.
>BIND accepts MB records; will sendmail(v5.59) use them to route mail in a zone?
>It seems logical that I'd set up the primary server with MB records for
>each user, and sendmail would notice them, but I can't figure out how to do
>this.

It is *very* logical, and that's the idea of the MB and MG records, but
unfortunately your sendmail doesn't deal with them.  At least up to 5.61,
all it knows to do is query for MX records for the recipient hosts.  The
sendmail in IBM's AIX 3.1 does support MB, MG, and MR records, but I
haven't heard of another one that does.  That surprises me, considering how
simple and useful a feature it is.
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