Re: urgent Mail Server
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:09:07AM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> Quoting Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org>:
> [snip]
> > An MX is only needed if some other system is going to be handling the
> > mail bound for that one.
> >
>
> You can get away with this most of the time. However, the RFCs do
> require that you have an MX record and some mail servers are setup to
> not accept mail from servers/domains that do not have MX records as a
> anti-spam measure. If you are using dyndns.org, you can set a MX
> record.
Uh, I just finished reading rfc 2821 for a project and I can't agree
with your reading at all. I refer you to section 5 (page 60).
Could you explain why you feel the RFC says you MUST have an MX
record?
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