On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, torben fjerdingstad wrote:
> I put this list into control/rcpthosts on mail.isp.dk (name not real)
> and get mail.isp.dk added as a lower precedence MX in my customer's
> zone files. That should be enough, right? Nothing more necessary.
>
> The problem.
> I have, too many times, seen mail.isp.dk reject mail to
> my customers domains with the following error:
>
> "Sorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A for that host, "
> "it isn't in my control/locals file, so I don't treat it as local. (#5.4.6)"
I might be wrong (I tend to muddle my way through problems), but just
today I was adding another subdomain to handle mail for and I ran into the
same error message. As far as I can tell (sorry, I don't have the FAQ
memorized...yet), in addition to rcpthosts, you also have to have it in
either locals (for local mail) or virtualdomains (for everything else).
The only problem I see with having it as a virtualdomain is that 'how is
the customer supposed to pick up his/her/its mail?' It won't be
automatically sent out.
A question about secondary MX's: How are they supposed to handle the
mail they get? They can't immediately send it off, because the primary MX
might be down.
.Shawn
