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Article #2718Re: I want to be able to use MX records on IBM AIX
From: Garrett Wollman
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:00
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:00
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In article <2140@coyote.UUCP> drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com (Sam Drake) writes:
>Look at /usr/lib/sendmail.cf, and make sure that the setting for "OK" is
>what you want. The AIX sendmail can indeed use MX records, if OK is set
>to request it.
Quoth RFC 1123, ``Requirements for Internet Hosts'':
5.3.5 Domain Name Support
SMTP implementations MUST use the mechanism defined in Section
6.1 for mapping between domain names and IP addresses. This
means that every Internet SMTP MUST include support for the
Internet DNS.
In particular, a sender-SMTP MUST support the MX record scheme
[SMTP:3]. See also Section 7.4 of [DNS:2] for information on
domain name support for SMTP.
It's time for IBM to stop fooling around on this one. MX PROCESSING
IS *****NOT***** AN OPTION!
-GAWollman
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.unix.aix Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!emba-news.uvm.edu!sadye.emba.uvm.edu!wollman From: wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) Subject: Re: I want to be able to use MX records on IBM AIX Message-ID: <1993Jan28.180032.4365@uvm.edu> Sender: news@uvm.edu Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility References: <1993Jan26.195437.25987@athena.mit.edu> <2140@coyote.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:00:32 GMT Lines: 28