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Re: mail problem



On 2000-01-23 14:46:28, aphro wrote:

> wind >Clearly, you are hosting something on galactica, otherwise mail for
> wind >your "local" user would be forwarded to your other machine.  What is
> wind >the mx record for galactica?  Do you have a domain hosted on bebo and
> wind >some users from that domain on galactica?  If so, you will need to
> wind >either accept USER@bebo.DOMAIN on galactica (and nothing else) or
> wind >rewrite their addresses to USER@galactica.DOMAIN.
> 
> galactica and bebo share the same MX, the MX for firetrail.com
> (which goes to firetrail.com)..i have 0 domains (other then
> galactica.firetrail.com) set to recieve mail on galactica.

So, the MX for galactica and bebo is firetrail.com?  What is the MX
record for firetail.com?  You know that means that all mail send for
these machines will be directed to firetail.com, right?

> but you are right(i re checked) that galactica is not even bothering
> to deliver mail to another domain if it doesnt exist on the local
> machine(unless i override it by specifying the main domain
> firetrail.com instead of one of the others like aphroland.org or
> linuxguild.com). All of our domains have the same MX.

Huh?


/Allan
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