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AIX sendmail or resolver doesn't grok MX records?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Thu May 30 09:09:36 1991

Date: Thu, 30 May 91 09:09:18 -0400
From: Ken Raeburn <Raeburn@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: lwvanels@MIT.EDU


I noticed mail to me (@watch.com) in the bug-zephyr discuss meeting, and
looked into why I had never received it.  Looks like the mailer on godtree
isn't set up to forward through Athena, and doesn't seem to be handling MX
records correctly.  This is a bad combination.

------- Forwarded Message

Date: Tue, 28 May 91 22:55:10 -0400
From: MAILER-DAEMON@godtree.MIT.EDU (Mail Delivery Subsystem)
Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown
To: <raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 watch.com.tcp... 550 Host unknown
550 <raeburn@watch.com>... Host unknown

   ----- Unsent message follows -----
Received: from LYCUS.MIT.EDU by godtree (AIX 3.1/UCB 5.61/4.03)
          id AA11764; Thu, 30 May 91 08:56:55 -0400
Date: Thu, 30 May 91 08:56:55 -0400
Message-Id: <9105301256.AA11764@godtree>
From: Raeburn@athena.mit.edu
To: raeburn@watch.com
Subject: mailer test

trying to figure out why lucien's mail never reached me...

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