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[Joseph S D Yao]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 04:51:16PM -0500, G. E. Terry wrote:
> 
> As far as I am aware, you need an mx record to route mail to.
> 
> At 04:42 PM 2/6/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >Can you recieve email without having an MX record? I seem to recall it using
> >the A record instead.

Before MX records, you just sent e-mail directly to the named host.  In
the absence of an MX record, you still do the same thing.  This means,
of course, that there has to be an A record and the ability to route
from here to there.

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