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Date:      Sun, 23 Jul 1995 15:09:27 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert)
To:        nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: MX records and sendmail
Message-ID:  <199507231309.PAA27887@blaise.ibp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <199507230214.UAA00615@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Jul 22, 95 08:14:46 pm

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> Okay, so this should work then.
> machineA.domain.net    preference = 5,  mail exchanger = machineA.domain.net
> machineA.domain.net    preference = 10, mail exchanger = machineB.domain.net

Yes.

> Do I need to do anything special to the sendmail.cf on machine B for it to accept
> email for machine A, or is the MX record enough?

The MX is enough.

> Will machine-B attempt to send out the queued email at the -q##
> intervals, or is MX queued email handled differently?

When it is queued, it will processed every -q## interval as any other
mail. Inet providers put them in separate queues in order to avoid une-
cessary processing.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT     -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-     roberto@FreeBSD.ORG
      FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #5: Fri Jul 14 12:28:04 MET DST 1995



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