[TriLUG] sendmail, mailman, and mm-handler

[Jon Carnes]

You are correct that a machine does not need an MX record to receive
mail sent to that machine; however, since Ryan's server is attempting to
send his local mail off of the machine (rather than accept it locally)
there is clearly a problem of some sort. 

In my dealing with folks on the mailman list, a common problem is that
they *have* mx records, and they are set incorrectly. 

So if you have a suggestion that might help Ryan, lets hear it.

Jon Carnes

On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 09:30, Christopher L Merrill wrote:
> 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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