On Saturday, August 11, 2007, 22:27:41, Chris wrote:
> 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.
But it *is* RFC compliant.
> In addition, if the Op is able to do his/her own DNS - then it's a
> poor way of doing DNS imho.
No argument about that.
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