[SAC] email trapped on projectsVM and trac machine

[Martin Spott]

Hi Frank,

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 11:54:42AM -0500, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> >While I was at it, I noticed that there are two MX'es, one for
> >'lists.osgeo.org' pointing at 'lists.osgeo.org' and another one for
> >'mail.osgeo.org' pointing at 'mail.osgeo.org'.  Unless someone is
> >relying on these MX'es for some special EMail routing gimmicks, I'd
> >recommend to remove the latter ones because I think they're just
> >useless overhead, probably adding more confusion than value.

> I don't really know much about how MX records, but lists.osgeo.org is
> certainly an important destination for mailing lists and I don't want
> anything to break that.

Sure.

Basically you'd like to have an MX record in those cases when the
hostname part of the addressee, the part after the "@" sign, is
different from the hostname to which the respective EMail is to be
delivered.  The name 'lists.osgeo.org' is registered as a DNS A-record,
thus there's very little use in having an MX for a hostname pointing to
the identical A-record  :-))

Cheers,
	Martin.
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