Thanks Dragon and Mark for your detailed responses. I tested this out, and found out sure enough, that the mail is indeed delivered locally.
Best regards, Bill -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dragon Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 1:05 PM To: mailman mailing list Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman posting question Mark Sapiro wrote: >Dragon wrote: > > > >MTAs are designed to deliver mail to the correct host based on the MX > >record for a given domain. > > >Except in cases where the recipient domain is one of the MTA's 'local >domains'. In that case, the mail is delivered locally without ever >consulting DNS. ---------------- End original message. --------------------- Which was sort of implied by the rest of my post, I didn't state it explicitly. But this is true of any network traffic at the TCP/IP and even at the MAC layer. If it is local, it doesn't go out on the wire even though you may be sending it to the physical address of a configured interface. The network stack is smart enough to know that it should just pass the traffic in memory instead of sending it on an actual interface, it essentially, and transparently, substitutes "localhost" for the address because it knows how to get there directly. Basically, the principle of "shortest path" is used. How exactly this gets done in an individual MTA is based on how it is designed and configured. Since I don't know the exact details of any of them, I will leave any discussion of how they route local traffic to those who do know. Dragon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Venimus, Saltavimus, Bibimus (et naribus canium capti sumus) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/honneus%40cisco.com Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
