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[Auteria Wally Winzer Jr.]

Besides, no MTA is running on the domain in question anyway.

- Wally Winzer Jr.

Don Stokes wrote:

> In article <95psb1$k4s at pub3.rc.vix.com>, G. E. Terry <gterry at twave.net> wrote:
> >As far as I am aware, you need an mx record to route mail to.
>
> Your awareness is wrong.  From RFC 974, "Mail Routing and the Domain
> System", page 3:
>
> Interpreting the List of MX RRs
> [...]
>    It is possible that the list of MXs in the response to the query will
>    be empty.  This is a special case.  If the list is empty, mailers
>    should treat it as if it contained one RR, an MX RR with a preference
>    value of 0, and a host name of REMOTE.  (I.e., REMOTE is its only
>    MX).  In addition, the mailer should do no further processing on the
>    list, but should attempt to deliver the message to REMOTE.  The idea
>    here is that if a domain fails to advertise any information about a
>    particular name we will give it the benefit of the doubt and attempt
>    delivery.
>
> An A record is sufficient to allow delivery of mail.  If it isn't, your
> mailer is broken.
>
> -- don


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