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From: mathisen@dali.cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ultrix sendmail MX question
Message-ID: <2799@dali>
Date: 31 Oct 90 16:38:12 GMT
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Organization: Montana State University, Dept. of Computer Science, Bozeman MT 59717
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In article <1308@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu> cohen@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu (Marc Cohen) writes:
>Sorry if this has been answered already.....
>
>It appears that 'out-of-the-box' sendmail under Ultrix 3.1 and 4.0 will
>not use an MX record if the machine it is trying to connect to is within
>the same domain as the sending machine.  This is true even if the



Hmph...  Works fine for me...  have you tried using nslookup to make sure
that the MX record is set up properly?



Also, you might try looking at sendmail-5.65, with IDA enhancements... I
ftp'd mine from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu in pub/sendmail-5.65*.  It supports
mail11, and other goodies...  Looks real nice.