At 2003-04-02T14:18:50Z, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > He didn't say the person with the mail server needed an MX record, he said > that "somewhere out there on the internet there is a nameserver for your > domain name with MX records that point at your mail server."
Not necessarily true:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host -t mx ursine.dyndns.org
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
> Apparently for you that somewhere is dyndns. If *no one* had it, you
> wouldn't receive mail.
Not true. The sending server will attempt to connect directly to the
specified hostname if no MX record exists for the domain.
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Kirk Strauser
In Googlis non est, ergo non est.
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