Sendmail Help

[Paul Howarth]

Dan Track wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm trying to sendmail from a client. The domain has four mx records
> for example.com, mx1 (weight 10),mx2 (weight 5),mx3 (weight 1),mx4
> (weight 2).
> 
> The problem I have is that when sending mail, the client always tries
> to access mx1. And since this isn't configured the connections gets
> refused. Can someone please explaing to me why it doesn't try any of
> the others first, given the weighting order?
> 
> This is a standard sendmail install without any configuration changes.
> 
> Thanks for your help in advance

Please post the output of "dig example.com mx" when run on the client.

Paul.