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In article <1cgo4fINNsb@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE> root@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Operator) writes:
>Hello world,
>I have a problem with NeXT-sendmail.
>We have a big campus-network mostly with sun systems.
>We also have a central Mail exchanger here. Therefore all machines (also  
>our NeXT stations) have an MX-record pointing to that Mail-exchanger.
>
>Now my problem:
>Any mail between our NeXT-stations is first sent to our mail-exchanger,  
>then coming back to our subnet!!!! :-(
>
>I want to stop that nonsense, coming up because NeXT-sendmail always sends  
>mail to the MX of the machine that was calculated by sendmail.cf.
>
>Example:
>If I want to post a mail to a machine named shiva, than sendmail looks for  
>the mail exchanger of shiva and send it to that MX-machine.
>
>Here is my question. Has anybody out there fixed that problem and stopped  
>sendmail from looking up the MX-record???? 
>On Sun systems there are versions of sendmail ignoring MX, but I can t  
>recompile them because they aren t looking up NetInfo.
>I am especially interested in answers for NeXTStep 3.0.

You WANT a brain-damaged sendmail that doesn't look up MX'es??? This is one
of the biggest gripes about Suns -- that they don't look up MX'es by default.

What you want to do should be perfectly doable with some sendmail.cf 
tweaking. Please don't lobotomize your sendmail just to get this 
functionality. Your successor may NOT appreciate your efforts if and when
your enterprise network moves to a different mail-routing architecture.
MX'es are generally very useful critters.
							
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