Quoting Christian Seberino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
DNS docs keep using the term "mail exchanger" to describe what MX records map domains to. IS A MAIL EXCHANGER THE SAME THING AS A MAIL SERVER?? (e.g. my little Postfix PC?!?)
Yep.. the whole point to mx records is that you can list the servers to handle mail for your whole domain. So even if someone sends mail to a specific hostname in your domain (say www.your.domain) MTA's (that follow the rfc's anyway) will read the dns records and deliver to the mx records instead. You can also rank the mx records so that you have primary and backup servers, primarys are always tried first going down the list. -- Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Staff Engineer-http://www.miguelito.org Marge: "Homer, sitting that close to the TV can't be good for you." Homer: "Talking while the TV's on can't be good for you!" ==> Simpsons -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
