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Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...
From: Jeroen Geilman <jeroen_at_nospam>Date: Thu Oct 21 2010 - 20:52:50 GMT
To: postfix-users@postfix.org
On 10/21/2010 04:02 AM, Christopher Koeber wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Jeroen Geilman <jeroen@adaptr.nl
> <mailto:jeroen@adaptr.nl>> wrote:
>
> On 10/19/2010 06:12 PM, Ben McGinnes wrote:
>
> Not if the students subdomain has different MX details to the main
> domain, which appears to be the case here:
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> wesleyseminary.edu <http://wesleyseminary.edu/>. 43098
> IN MX 10 mail1.no-ip.com <http://mail1.no-ip.com/>.
> wesleyseminary.edu <http://wesleyseminary.edu/>. 43098
> IN MX 15 mail2.no-ip.com <http://mail2.no-ip.com/>.
> wesleyseminary.edu <http://wesleyseminary.edu/>. 43098
> IN MX 5 mail.wesleyseminary.edu
> <http://mail.wesleyseminary.edu/>.
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> students.wesleyseminary.edu
> <http://students.wesleyseminary.edu/>. 1674 IN MX 5
> students.wesleyseminary.edu <http://students.wesleyseminary.edu/>.
>
> Probably a good idea in any educational environment.
>
>
>
> Yet totally superfluous; the A record suffices.
>
> This is in reference to the myhostname setting?
No.
foo.bar MX 10 foo.bar is unnecessary, as any valid A record can receive
mail.
Since foo.bar has to be an A record (you're using it as the MX value)
the MX record is superfluous.
-- J.