On 10/18/2014 4:41 PM, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:15:16 -0400 > Jerry Stuckle <jstuc...@attglobal.net> wrote: > > >> >> You obviously don't understand. MX records identify MTAs - that is, >> machines which can receive email. MUAs cannot do that. >> >> To identify an MUA with an MX record would be a violation of the >> domain name system. >> > > And I'm reasonably sure I've never seen *anyone* suggest that an MX > record should point to a host running only an MUA. I don't understand > why you're labouring the point when nobody is arguing with you. >
That's EXACTLY what lee was saying. > Nor indeed that an MX record should point to a host running an MTA, > *unless* that MTA was a Mail eXchanger. Every Linux computer I've ever > seen runs an MTA, but in very few of them was the MTA a mail exchanger, > which is what requires a DNS MX record. > No, an A record will also work. > Nobody is arguing over TLAs here, just how you configure the things, > specifically where exim4 on Debian is the MTA, and very specifically > when it is accepting unauthenticated mail on port 25, as practically > every MTA with an MX record does. > And MUAs don't. But lee doesn't seem to understand the difference. Jerry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5442e475.7070...@attglobal.net
