need some help with mx and tell me if I did set it up correctly..

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Mon Feb 14 16:50:35 UTC 2000


In article <B4CBC81F.609%ecantre1 at rochester.rr.com>,
Boult  <ecantre1 at rochester.rr.com> wrote:
>Am I doing right??  should I change all mx parameter to poing to
>mail.webhostgroup.net (or webhostgroup.net) ?

The important thing is to prevent mail loops, so the server has to be able
to recognize when an MX record points to itself.  The best way to ensure
this is to have the MX record point to the name the machine knows itself
as.

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