Mail configuration

John dingo at coco2.arach.net.au
Sun Sep 12 22:08:15 CDT 2004


LaMont Jones wrote:

>On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 07:34:26AM +0800, John wrote:
>  
>
>>In this instance, "mail.vix.com" and "smtp.vix.com" would be reasonable 
>>guesses (subject to user acceptance).
>>    
>>
>
>And the default relayhost is, in fact, smtp.$domain, if we chose to
>make the default config use a relayhost, instead of saying 'local mail
>only', which is the right answer in 75% of the world.
>  
>

Works for all the biggies I tried here, except for bigpond. However, 
mail resolves and is probably correct. A test to see what resolves would 
get it right more often than most users:-)




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