How do I send mail to primary MX?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <378DCB36.AAE7DE44 at byford.com>, Mark Hodge  <mark at byford.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have two mail servers, mx1 and mx2 running sendmail. In the DNS they
>are setup as:
>
>IN      MX      10      mx1.byford.com.
>IN      MX      20      mx2.byford.com.
>
>If mail is sent to mx2 for whatever reason, it goes to the local user's
>mail spool directory on that server. How do I make sure all mail is sent
>to mx1 even if it arrives at mx2?
>(This is so pop3 users only need one server to look at).

If mx2 is running sendmail, it will only perform local delivery if the
domain is in its Cw line or sendmail.cw file.  If you don't want it to do
local delivery, make sure you don't have the domain in either of those
places.  It will then queue the mail to forward it to the more preferred MX
host.

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