Help re: MX record

[Michael Voight]

sabbah22 at my-deja.com wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We have set up DNS using BIND (sort of a franken-config but thats
> another story) and we're having a problem getting the rest of the
> internet to able to send mail to our domain. (in a way..)
> 
> >From the outside, I can send mail to "me at mail.domain.com", where
> mail.domain.com is specified in our DNS files and exists as a host,
> however I would rather be able to send mail to "me at domain.com" instead.
> 
> Is this what the MX record does?  We have one of those so that must not
> be the problem.
> 
> Is this possible?  It seems it *would* be with pretty much every other
> domain doing this, obviously.  I just can't figure out where to put it.

Do you have an mx record for domain.com?
What does it point to?
Does that machine know it is supposed to accept mail for domain.com?
(It must be configured on some machines)

What happens when this machine is sent mail?

Michael