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regarding ssmtp should have option to use MX records for mailhub
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Package: ssmtp
Version: 2.61
This is just a feature request. Since ssmtp is supposed to be an SMTP client, it
ought to look up the MX records for the mailhub, not the A records, and then try
the MX records in the order given by those records, and if there are no MX
records, then fall back on using the A records. (I know the documentation
states that it doesn't use MX. But it ought to!)
Ideally you would support *both* approaches, in the sense that a configuration
option in ssmtp.conf (or for each host in revaliases) could tell ssmtp to skip
the MX records for particular hosts and go straight to the A records. This
additional feature would be useful for those institutions that use one name for
incoming and outgoing mail, yet actually handle the two types of mails on
different machines.
Alexander Perlis, Department of Mathematics, The University of Arizona
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The suggested feature is beyond ssmtp's scope.
Closing this bug because there is no possibility of adding this feature to
ssmtp.
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