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From: adoane@ais.net (Andrew J. Doane)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Sendmail relay host problems
Date: 6 Jun 1996 14:18:59 -0500
Organization: American Information Systems, Inc.
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Message-ID: <adoane.834088599@eagle.ais.net>
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krenaut@jax.jaxnet.com (Karl Renaut) writes:
>I am having a problem with my sendmail configuration, under light load
>everything works fine, but when the mail server is overloaded and the
>sending entity goes to the second or third MX preference... the mail gets
>bounced due to a configuration error that indicates the the "mail loops
>back to me, MX problem?"
>Here is the MX records for my mail server:
>mailhub IN MX 10 mailhub.southeast.net.
> IN MX 50 www1.southeast.net.
> IN MX 100 jaxnet.southeast.net.
> IN MX 150 offsite.host.com.
You realize that you are setting MX records for the HOST 'mailhub' not
for the domain.
I think what you wanted was:
(after SOA record ie impiled doamin @ ) or specifically put the domain...
either way, I think you wanted:
somedomain.com. IN MX 10 mailhub
somedomain.com. IN MX 50 www1
somedomain.com. IN MX 100 jaxnet
somedomain.com. IN MX 150 offsite.host.com.
That will list the 4 mailexchangers for your domain.
/ajd/
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