diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail/chapter.sgml index f52bf4b591..2918e66903 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail/chapter.sgml @@ -820,10 +820,12 @@ to /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. Another way is to get a full-time Internet server to provide secondary MX services for your domain. For example, if your company's domain is - example.com: + example.com and your Internet service provider has + set example.net up to provide secondary MX services + to your domain: example.com. MX 10 example.com. - MX 20 myisp.com. + MX 20 example.net. Only one host should be specified as the final recipient (add Cw example.com in @@ -833,7 +835,7 @@ to /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. deliver the mail it will try to connect to you (example.com) over the modem link. It will most likely time out because you are not online. Sendmail will automatically deliver it to the - secondary MX site, i.e. your Internet provider (myisp.com). The secondary MX + secondary MX site, i.e. your Internet provider (example.net). The secondary MX site will then periodically try to connect to your host and deliver the mail to the primary MX host (example.com).