Timothy Murphy wrote: > What exactly is the story of an email
message? a long one. in short, a mail server (in this case, your
sendmail) will try to connect directly to the server referenced
in the MX record for the email's domain name, and will deliver
directly to there. That machine will then either forward the
mail to another server, or deposit it in the account's mailbox.
one of the important reasons to use your ISP's mail servers
instead of your own is that they are usually a bit more widely
respected (white-listed), versus your own machine which may be
in a DHCP pool, possibly blacklisted before you even got the IP
address, and not reliable anyway. I'm over-simplifying here, of
course. other people know much more about this than I would, but
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