topic Re: Sendmail/MX Record in Operating System - HP-UX

Sendmail/MX Record

Junior C. — Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:14:03 GMT

How do you add/setup MX Record

Thanks,

Junior

Re: Sendmail/MX Record

Berlene Herren — Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:26:17 GMT

A mailer needs an MX record for a particular domain name destination to make a mail routing decision. In your db file, the MX record would look like this:

peets.mpk.ca.us. IN MX 10 relay.hp.com

This specifies the relay.hp.com is a mail exchanger for peets,mpk.ca.us at preference value 10.

Berlene

Re: Sendmail/MX Record

Albert E. Whale, CISSP — Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:26:21 GMT

Junior,

The MX Record is a DNS record which Sendmail can reference to distribute E-Mail to.

The actual format of the record is something like this:

IN MX 10 mail.domain.com.

There can be multiple MX Records in the DNS Tables to assist in providing Redundancy for E-Mail.

Hope that helps. Please let me know if you need additional information.

Re: Sendmail/MX Record

Dan Am — Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:28:33 GMT

here's a good one, though not all that easy:

http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/99/mar/bwm103.html

have fun !

dan