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Re: MX records (was: Re: FreeHand files under linux)
- To: "guy keren" <choo(at-nospam)actcom.co.il>, "Ilya Konstantinov" <linux-il(at-nospam)future.galanet.net>
- Subject: Re: MX records (was: Re: FreeHand files under linux)
- From: "Ishai Parasol" <ishai-iglu(at-nospam)parasol.org.il>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:00:10 +0200
- Cc: "Linux-IL" <linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il>
- References: <Pine.GSU.4.30_heb2.09.0103151145370.5225-100000@actcom.co.il>
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
Hi.
A question:
Basicaly If I have a CNAME record *.mydomain.com and it's good for www &
mail (the servers are being "called" with inet by the port) and I don't want
to have a backup mail server, then I don't have any special reason to setup
an MX record. Right ?
Ishai.
----- Original Message -----
From: "guy keren" <choo@actcom.co.il>
To: "Ilya Konstantinov" <linux-il@future.galanet.net>
Cc: "Linux-IL" <linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 11:47 AM
Subject: MX records (was: Re: FreeHand files under linux)
>
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
>
> > BTW,
> >
> > Ishai, make sure your new domain parasol.org.il has an MX entry in the
> > DNS, pointing to it's mail handler host. Otherwise, many MTA (including
> > mine, Exim) will refuse to route to it.
>
> this sounds like a bug in exim. as far as i know, if a domain has no MX
> record, but has an A record, the MTA should contact the machine in the A
> record as the mail server for the domain.
>
> better check the RFC. then, better check for a bug in Exim, or your
> configuration.
>
> --
> guy
>
> "For world domination - press 1,
> or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
>
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