Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!TRANSARC.COM!Craig_Everhart From: Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: accepting mail for an alias hostname Message-ID: Date: 29 May 91 15:14:31 GMT References: <13228@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 11 (I'm sending this to comp.mail.sendmail because it's unclear how to get mail to the sender, given the complaint!) Which is the old name and which is the new? At the moment, mpg has an MX record pointing to uhcmtg, and uhcmtg is listed as a CNAME for mpg (all correctly translated to fully-qualified domains). You can't have both of these. The target for an MX record needs to be a name that isn't a CNAME. Craig