how does mailx work

[Dave Korn]

----Original Message----
>From: Carlo Florendo
>Sent: 28 April 2005 06:45

> 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?
>

  MX records tend to be per-domain rather than per-host anyway.  Your local
dns server will presumably be returning a suitable record.  Show us the
output from 


dig @localhost mybox.org in mx


    cheers,
      DaveK
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