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[ILUG] Very elementary question on email

[ILUG] Very elementary question on email

paul at clubi.ie paul at clubi.ie
Fri Sep 21 17:01:40 IST 2007


On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> But my query is - why is email working OK,
> despite the fact that I didn't do anything to sendmail.mc (or .cf)?
> How does the email know where to go?

MX records in DNS..

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