Re: urgent Mail Server

[ronin2@bellatlantic.net]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 12:26:37 -0600
Nathan E Norman <nnorman@incanus.net> wrote:

> Please read section 5 of rfc 2821.
> 
>  "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."
> 
> Thus Paul's setup not only works, it _should_ work as it is compliant.
> Any MTA which cannot deliver mail to Paul's system due to the lack of
> an MX record is broken.

Thank you for the pointer.

Thanks also to Paul and Kirk.

I learn something every day.

Kevin