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Subject: RE: How to disable local delivery of mail
From: "Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:10:23 -0400
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I've contacted IBM and they said there is no way to disable local
delivery as long as the IP address for our domain name points to the
AS/400. I can't change that.

So they prefer the A record for the domain over the MX record? That's
not per-RFC and I'd say it's a bug.

Now, that's doesn't help now, so... what about a dummy host entry on the
400 w/the a different ip for your domain so as to fool the local SMTP
server? Does the 400 act as the DNS for the rest of your network?

-Walden

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