Re: Sendmail without MX records

From: John Hurst (hhyfa@jhancock.com)
Date: Tue Aug 01 2000 - 18:27:16 EEST

  • Next message: Phillip Jones: "Re: Books exchange offer"

    Max wrote:
    >
    > Anyone have any ideas to make sendmail work without MX records, but still
    > use DNS ?, I'm sure other amprnet sites must have come up with a solution.

    Once upon a time, sendmail would automaticaly fall back to A records when
    no MX were present. My (old) O'Reilly Sendmail book indicates that behavior
    is not configurable (it should always happen). I don't know when sendmail
    stopped behaving that way, because I switched to qmail ( http://www.qmail.org )
    several years ago. A quick test here shows that qmail still tries A records
    where MX are not available.

    -jh



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Aug 01 2000 - 19:37:59 EEST