Re: [Evolution] SMTP and MX

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 07:12, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> I was idly curious about how Evo resolved an SMTP server. Does it use MX
> resolution, or just the address from the A record?

Just the A record. Using the MX record would be wrong; MX is to answer
the question "how do I deliver mail to someone in the domain 'foo.com'".
It's possible that the server that the MX record leads you to will only
accept mail addressed to local recipients.

> Are there any plans
> to use sendmail's MSA (mail submission agent) port?

Not currently. The Internet Draft that that's based on has expired
anyway... You can override the port yourself though by specifying
"smtp.foo.com:587" as the hostname in the mail config dialog.

-- Dan