[Fwd: ezmlm warning]
Mark Street
jet at sonic.net
Sat Jan 5 14:28:51 PST 2002
Yep, my bad as I only used host to get the 145.145.
I had to do the same thing with sonic to get them to relay my mail to my
mail server. A little different with a DSL static IP addy but the same DNS
entry applies for the MX record for the domain.
;; ANSWER SECTION:
streetchiro.com. 3600 IN MX 10 mail.sonic.net.
streetchiro.com. 3600 IN MX 0 streetchiro.com.
At 01:44 PM 1/5/2002 -0800, Eric Eisenhart wrote:
>mail2.monitor.net. 86400 IN A 65.214.144.4
>mail.monitor.net. 86400 IN A 65.214.144.7
>
>Which means that the first thing somebody trying to send you email is
>supposed to do is try 65.214.144.7, and if that fails, try .4.
>
>As Mark pointed out, we could set up qmail to only deliver to your domain
>via mail.monitor.net, but down that path lies madness. The right solution
>is for your ISP to fix the problem; us setting up specific, hard-coded
>relaying will break if you change ISP or the ISP changes setup and other
>people will have the same problem emailing you and you just won't hear about
>it.
>
>(Mark: that 145.145 address is an A record, which is irrelevant for email
>unless there's no MX record. I'd bet that's the website)
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