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Re: An A record is an MX record and is a missing MX....

  • From: Valdis.Kletnieks
  • Date: Thu Apr 03 17:11:46 2003 
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 15:58:53 CST, Gerardo Gregory said:

> I have always been under the impression (or taught at least) that an MX 
> record was necessary (required) for mail exchange.  I at least believed that 
> this was the correct way.  Recently, we implemented a new mail server at our 

It's the preferred way, but not required.

Then there's those bozo sites (mostly spammers) that ignore MX and go
directly to the A record value.. Blegga...

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