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Fw: MX records
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- Subject: Fw: MX records
- From: "Oded Arbel" <odeda-linux-il(at-nospam)betalfa.org.il>
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:11:03 +0200
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Ok, fix :
I was wrong. RFC 974 states that it's legal for a domain to have no MX
records, in which case the mailer would try to route the mail to the host
with the name 'domain.tld', for example, if the _domain_ 'parasol.co.il' has
no MX records listed, then the mailer would attempt to deliver the message
to the _host_ named 'parasol.co.il' if one exists.
Oded
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Oded Arbel" <odeda-linux-il@betalfa.org.il>
To: "Linux-Il Mailing List" <linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il>
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 9:26 AM
Subject: Fw: MX records (was: Re: FreeHand files under linux)
> Wrong.
> If you want to recieve mail, you must have an MX record. mail servers
> don't check and "guess" that if a domain has a 'mail.domain' host, then
> that's probably the mail relay. it doesn't work like that, or else all
kinds
> of strange and wierd mess would happen. that's what standards are for.
>
> For a mail relay to send you mail, you must have an MX record pointing at
> your own mail relay.
>
> Oded
>
> --
> Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see.
> -- William Newton Clarke
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