On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:11:24 -0400
Rod Dorman <rodd AT polylogics DOT com> wrote:
> On Saturday, August 11, 2007, 21:10:21, Chris wrote:
> > ...
> > You NEED a valid MX record for mail to work. ...
>
> No, you don't.
>
> RFC 2821 section "5. Address Resolution and Mail Handling" is quite
> explicit.
>
> "If no MX records are found, but an A RR is found, the A RR is
> treated as if it was associated with an implicit MX RR, with a
> preference of 0, pointing to that host."
>
>
While that may be true, users that setup RFC compliant servers may
reject the Ops server. In addition, if the Op is able to do his/her own
DNS - then it's a poor way of doing DNS imho.
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Best regards,
Chris
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