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To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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Subject: Re: Port of TkCVS & Tkdiff 
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Date: Sat, 03 Aug 1996 05:35:54 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> > There is  a mail relay  in  Europe. Several in  fact. Look  in the DNS  for
> > mail-relay.de.freebsd.org, mail-relay.fr.freebsd.org and so on.
> 
> Neither of these were found by my mailer - no difference. It just timed 
> out trying to contact ref.tfs.com or somesuch. Dig didn't show any MX 
> sites for freebsd.org other than in America - so it was screwed-up a bit.

Huh?  What are you talking about?  Why would a *relay* be contacted by
your mailer directly? :-) The relays are known only to freefall, which
intelligently redistributes outgoing mail accordingly.  Your machie
still has to be able to get to freefall or one of its backup MX hosts.

					Jordan