I think you are right
what name server you use ?
bind 8.X check the A for MX if absent
Ishai Parasol wrote:
> 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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Ilya Konstantinov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Linux-IL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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.
> >
> > --
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