From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 23 06:09:32 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id GAA01674 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 23 Jul 1995 06:09:32 -0700 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA01668 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 1995 06:09:30 -0700 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id PAA11073 ; Sun, 23 Jul 1995 15:09:28 +0200 Received: from (roberto@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) id PAA27887 ; Sun, 23 Jul 1995 15:09:27 +0200 From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) Message-Id: <199507231309.PAA27887@blaise.ibp.fr> Subject: Re: MX records and sendmail To: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 15:09:27 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199507230214.UAA00615@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Jul 22, 95 08:14:46 pm X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#880 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 778 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Okay, so this should work then. > machineA.domain.net preference = 5, mail exchanger = machineA.domain.net > machineA.domain.net preference = 10, mail exchanger = machineB.domain.net Yes. > Do I need to do anything special to the sendmail.cf on machine B for it to accept > email for machine A, or is the MX record enough? The MX is enough. > Will machine-B attempt to send out the queued email at the -q## > intervals, or is MX queued email handled differently? When it is queued, it will processed every -q## interval as any other mail. Inet providers put them in separate queues in order to avoid une- cessary processing. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #5: Fri Jul 14 12:28:04 MET DST 1995