how does mailx work

[Carlo Florendo]

Hello,

I've searched the net for mailing lists regarding mailx but there seems 
to be none.   Then why ask about it in cygwin-talk?  Well, since it is 
off-topic on the cygwin list and I might as well try my luck here, where 
all of you are intelligent.

Here's the question:  How does mailx know which MX to use?  I've got a 
linux box with the hostname test.mybox.org.  Now, whenever I invoke 
"mail <user>@mybox.org", it delivers the mail to <user>'s mailbox in the 
local machine.  How come it thinks that mybox.com is the local machine?  
The local machine is test.mybox.org but *not* mybox.org.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Best Regards,

Carlo

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Carlo Florendo
Astra Philippines Inc.
www.astra.ph