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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: US Domain/Sendmail
Message-ID: <1990Sep24.131034.25979@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 24 Sep 90 13:10:34 GMT
References: <3572@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <3572@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> jls2@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Jeff Stoner) writes:
>In a sense, what I'm asking is more general: how can I get my sendmail
>to correctly know where to deliver mail for machines that only exist
>as MX records on Internet (they're "just off" Internet)?
>
 This question keeps coming up.

 The answer is simple.  You need a version of sendmail which can read MX
records.  Many systems come with both 'sendmail' and 'sendmail.mx'.  If
you have both, then: mv sendmail sendmail.nonmx;ln sendmail.mx sendmail

 If you don't have a version which reads MX records, get one.  They are
available on many ftp sites.  If you are inexperienced and don't want to
try this just yet, configure your 'sendmail' to forward most mail to a
host which can read MX records and deliver the mail for you.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115.                                  +1-815-753-6940