Re: smail confusion

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

James A. Robinson writes ("Re: smail confusion "):
> But what is different between the two servers is that I don't have an
> MX record for plato in my local setup -- I assumed smail would, upon
> failing to find an MX record, do a type A lookup and send it to the
> inet address.  I would think that it is doing that on plato.
> 
> So what I need to do is add MX record for all the hosts that I want
> able to receive mail?  That works well enough! :)

Hmm.  You shouldn't need to do this.  I tried looking at the source,
but it's too opaque for me, so I've mailed smail3-maintainers.

Ian.