[comp.mail.misc] Question on multiple mail exchangers

dce@Solbourne.COM (David Elliott) (07/24/89)

I'm in the middle of a very confusing discussion with the folks at
Uunet, and I'm wondering whether or not what I'm asking for is even
feasible.

Our situation is that we connect to four major sites: sun, nbires,
uunet, and boulder.  Our MX record is set up such that mail to the
Solbourne.COM domain is forwarded to uunet.

It seems to me that it should be possible to set it up so that if
sun, nbires, or boulder see mail to the Solbourne.COM domain, they
send it to us directly, instead of forwarding it to uunet.

In fact, our sendmail/smail configuration is set up so that we
do just this with the domains we talk to.  That is, a message
to a site within the Colorado.EDU domain is sent directly to
boulder, which is a local call for us.

Is what I'm asking for possible?  If not, it seems like the net could
save some money with this ability.  If so, what is the procedure?

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David Elliott		dce@Solbourne.COM
			...!{boulder,nbires,sun}!stan!dce