[TriLUG] sendmail, mailman, and mm-handler

[Christopher L Merrill]

rasch at raschnet.com wrote:
> Some MTA's won't deliver to a domain without an MX. Why not have one?

Really?  Which ones?

According to dyndns.org:
> Many people think that you need an MX record to receive mail. This is incorrect. 
> In the absence of an MX, mail to a machine (for example, mail to 
> @who-needs-an-mx.dyndns.org or @yourcustomdns.com) will be handled by that
> machine (in the case of my example, the machine at who-needs-an-mx.dyndns.org
> or at yourcustomdns.com). This is the behavior that most people running mail
> servers on their home machines want. For this reason, we do not recommend that
> users wanting a basic mail configuration set up an MX. It is not necessary, and
> it is possible to make mistakes in the MX record that will cause mail to end up
> somewhere else.

Who's right?

C


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