Great!  Thanks for helping me understand this better.

Oblio


At 3/29/02 03:34 PM +0100, you wrote:

>>But since they have their own mail server/dedicated line, they do their 
>>own sending.
>
>ok.
>
>>All that's necessary for us to provide backup services is the MX record 
>>and a hosts entry?  That's not bad.
>
>no
>
>>Is hosts used for anything else?
>
>yes, Imail, and most other tcp/ip apps, will use it to resolve any domain 
>name before Imail queries DNS.
>
>Len
>
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