On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 10:36:00PM +0200, John Fawcett via Postfix-users wrote:

> My first thought was to follow RFC7505 and define null mx records for my
> example.com that has no email accounts, so no server will bother to try and
> deliver email to it.
> 
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7505.html

Nothing to worry about, just do it.  There is no implication that hosts
under that no host in that domain is an MTA for some other domain.

> My doubt is that since the outgoing email server identifies itself as
> host1.example.com in the EHLO, is there a requirement or even an expectation
> that postmas...@example.com will be able to receive email. In that case I'd
> need to define an incoming email server only for that purpose, since there
> are no other email addresses in my example.com

Not a concern.  So long as the HELO name has an IP address that ideally
resolves back to (just) that name, you're all set.

-- 
    Viktor.
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