On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:55:27PM -0500, Steven Rice wrote:
[snip]
> > opposed to just A records?? I have found that qmail seems to have a
> > problem when it can't resolve the A record even though the MX is fully
> > resolveable to an IP...
>
> Every MX record should point to CNAME or an A record. "A" records work
> better but CNAME are fine but you have to do more wierdness to get it
> working.
Pointing to CNAMEs is close to forbidden.
> I think qmail looks up the A record, then the MX record, but I'm not
> sure about that.
It looks up the MX(es), and then the A records the MXes point to. If
there are no MXes it looks up the A record directly.
> > 2. Is there any way to view whats actually in queue as oppsed to just
> > seeing numbers.. My boss likes being able to actually see the queue
> > like in the old Sendmail.
>
[snip]
> This is one reason why I think the qmail-queue system sucks.
Just implement the sendmail-queueing system then, in qmail, and see it
break and fall over.
Greetz, Peter
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