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I would like to publicly thank Gavin Scott and Chris Bartram, who responded,
and explained to me some things about name resolution and MX records.

For those playing the home version of Jeopardy, one can use nslookup, issue
"set type=mx", then the name of a domain, and get their MX records for how
they handle mail. This information is dynamic for load balancing and
fallback / failover. If you try this for mobile.att.net, you will see why I
was having no luck.

Now, perl gurus, it appears that for the short-term, and for other needs, I
either need a way to convince our Exchange server (which now has all
relaying disabled) to authenticate me (since I am coming from within our
private network space), OR I need to make sense out of how to get the MX
records for a domain name, and make my SMTP connection to the email server
of note. I'm looking at these Net::DNS::RR classes...

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com

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