Anything wrong with the testpaper.com.sg MX entries ?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <bjnpm1$163v$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Junice <sssia at cyberway.com.sg> wrote:
>Hi,
>    Is the MX mail entry using IP address instead of a hostname valid

No.

>? Our Sendmail SMTP server keep coming back with hostname not found
>error message each time it tries to send out email to
>testpaper.com.sg.

That error message is correct.

>    Surprisingly, when I tried sending out from Yahoo, I am able to do
>so. Can anyone explain this ?

I guess they programmed their mailer to deal with this mistake.

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