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Re: Forcing postfix to check the MX entry

From: Бак Микаел <mikael.bak_at_nospam>
Date: Tue Jul 12 2011 - 09:05:43 GMT
To: postfix-users@postfix.org

Mark Goodge wrote:
> On 11/07/2011 15:02, Бак Микаел wrote:
>>
>> Easy!
>> Fix the software that your trusted users use to add their domain. Make
>> THAT software check that the domain's MX record points to the right
>> place BEFORE you actually add it to the database.
>
> That's not actually helpful, because if you want to avoid any
> interruption to mail delivery you have to add the domain to the new
> destination server before you alter the MX to point it there.
>

Yep, that's right. Didn't think of existing domains with mail traffic
getting transferred to his server.

Nevermind. This is not a postfix problem anyway.

M.