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Sendmail/MX Record

 
Junior C.
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Sendmail/MX Record

How do you add/setup MX Record

Thanks,

Junior
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Berlene Herren
Honored Contributor

Re: Sendmail/MX Record

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
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Albert E. Whale, CISSP
Honored Contributor

Re: Sendmail/MX Record

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.



Sr. Systems Consultant @ ABS Computer Technology, Inc. http://www.abs-comptech.com/aewhale.html & http://www.ancegroup.com
Dan Am
Frequent Advisor

Re: Sendmail/MX Record

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

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

have fun !

dan
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