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From: scott@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Holt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: using MX records with sendmail on RS/6000's
Keywords: sendmail, MX, nameserver, RS/6000, SMTP
Message-ID: <25584@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 4 Apr 91 23:24:33 GMT
References: <10310@hub.ucsb.edu>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <10310@hub.ucsb.edu> raj@pollux.geog.ucsb.edu (Richard A Johnson) writes:
>
>There isn't an A record for compuserve.com, but there are 2 MX records.  
>My guess as the source of the problem would be that IBM's version of sendmail
>doesn't support MX nameserver lookups.
>
>Is this the case?  Does anyone have a fix?  (Other than "use MMDF-IIb" that is!)
>
>Thanks for any help anyone can provide.


Look at the sendmail.cf file - look for a like that reads

#OK ALL

there are some comments above it which explain what it does. Put
simply, it enables processing of various types of nameserver
records - including MX. Uncomment and change this line as appropriate
and then

refresh -s sendmail

You may want to read through sendmail.cf and change a number of other
flags.

- Scott
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