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I'm using sendmail. How do I tell sendmail that stephenadler.com has an mx record and should deliver the mail to the ip address defined by the mx record? Dan Ritter wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 09:53:03PM -0500, Stephen Adler wrote: > >> I have the following setup. My server is called stephenadler.com and I >> have a permanent IP address assigned to it. An A record. My mail is >> being serviced by a mail service provider called luxsci.com. I've >> defined the mx record for stephenadler.com to point to luxsci's mail >> servers. But, if I send e-mail on my home server, to >> [hidden email], it sends it directly to my home server and >> ignores the MX record. Do you guys know how to get send mail on my >> server to not ignore the mx record so that it sends the e-mail to >> luxsci's mail servers? >> > > You don't say what MTA you're running, but I can explain the > problem to you anyway. > > When you send mail from stephenadler.com, the local MTA has to > make a decision: where do I send this? First it looks to see > whether the mail is local: is there a username without a > right-hand-side? No? Well, let's look at the right-hand-side. Is > it something that I'm supposed to answer for? It is? Great, I'll > deliver locally. > > The A record is a red herring. > > -dsr- > >
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