Hi, MX stands for mail exchanger, and is an IP address of a machine that is actually running mail server software. You can't use this to forward to another e-mail address. Regards. On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Jacob Schmude wrote: > Hi > In the yi.org account editor, it mensions a secondary mx. What is > this and what does it do? Does it mean secondary mailbox? Can I, for > instance, redirect email to my ISP address when it's unable to reach my > machine directly through yi.org? I'm online as much as possible, but if > I'm not online in linux, and mail comes to me, what happens? I guess if > it's for no longer than 4 hours it's ok, otherwise it bounces? I'm a > newbie to this dns stuff. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >