MX Records

Chris De Young chd at arizona.edu
Fri Sep 9 22:46:32 UTC 2005


Rick wrote:
> Is an MX record required? I know if you want to receive mail it is but what 
> if you are not going to receive email at that domain?
Even if you want to receive mail, it's not, as long as you have an A record. 
In the absence of an MX record mail should be delivered to the machine defined 
in the A record just fine.

At least that's my understanding - someone please correct me if I'm mistaken.

Cheers,
-Chris


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