Re: Is there a sendmail out there ignoring MX-records ????

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From: Christopher Davis
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 16:25

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Operator> == Operator  <root@shiva.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> 

 Operator> We have a big campus-network mostly with sun systems.  We
 Operator> also have a central Mail exchanger here. Therefore all
 Operator> machines (also our NeXT stations) have an MX-record pointing
 Operator> to that Mail-exchanger.

 Operator> Now my problem: Any mail between our NeXT-stations is first
 Operator> sent to our mail-exchanger, then coming back to our
 Operator> subnet!!!! :-(

So fix the MXes so the "best" MX is the machine you want the mail to
wind up on.  Sheesh.
--
Christopher K. Davis      | ``Usenet seems to run much like the Kif (or,
<ckd@eff.org>   EFF #14   |   for the TV generation, Klingon) high command.
System Administrator, EFF |   Whoever takes action and can be heard wins.''
+1 617 864 0665  [CKD1]   |   --Peter da Silva <peter@ferranti.com>

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From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Re: Is there a sendmail out there ignoring MX-records ????
In-Reply-To: root@shiva.informatik.uni-dortmund.de's message of 26 Oct 1992 12:25:51 GMT
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