Point me in the right direction please....sendmail to MS exchange BIND config

[Brian Ventura]

You want to send mail between 2 mail servers that have DNS (A record)
entries.  So if you point mail to the machine name directly, you do not
need MX records in DNS  So bob at ntserver.domain.com will go to a machine
named ntserver in the domain "domain.com" If you point mail to
bob at unix.domain.com the same will happen for that server.  If you want to
route mail bob at domain.com through one of the two servers based on the
username, then that is a mail configuration issue and is covered in the
mail products.

If the Unix machine is sending mail to "bob at domain.com" then there needs
to be an MX record for "domain.com" that points to the nt server:

domain.com.    3600    IN    MX    10 ntserver.domain.com.


CliveH at lana.pathlink.com wrote:

> Our current environment consists of a HPUX unix server and a Windows
> NT Server. I want to 'sendmail' from unix server to NT server, so BIND
> must have to locate the domain to make mail delivery possible(?).
> Exchange is up and running on the NT server with a valid DNS
> configuration. In setting up BIND on unix, should I attempt to set up
> the resolver to query my windows NT DNS name server, or treat the unix
> as a discrete entity and configure BIND as a root name server.
>
> If I could get over this conceptual hurdle, maybe the rest will slot
> into place..?
>
> Any advice would be appreciated

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