Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!aero-c!gumby.dsd.trw.com!deneva!scott From: scott@coyote.trw.com (Scott Simpson) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: sendmail Keywords: n Message-ID: <27F3AA7B.34BC@deneva.sdd.trw.com> Date: 29 Mar 91 20:58:35 GMT References: <1991Mar21.201653.2820@athena.mit.edu> Sender: news@deneva.sdd.trw.com Organization: MASDR Project, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 11 In article <1991Mar21.201653.2820@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes: > An MX record contains a preference and a name. The name is the name of a >host to which mail should be sent; that host must have an address record >registered. The preference is a number; the higher the number, the more the >mailer is encouraged to use that MX record. This way, a host can have Beeep. Wrong. The MX record with the *lowest* number gets tried first. An empty MX record list and an MX record with a preference of zero are treated the same. -- Scott Simpson TRW scott@coyote.trw.com