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On Jan 22, 2015, at 8:56 PM, Justin Vallon <justinval...@gmail.com>
wrote:


> On 1/22/15 4:00 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> > 
> > The current SMTP specification refers to the above for "more detail"
> > from
> > Section 5.1 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-5.1
> 
> Thanks for the reference.  RFC 5321 sec 5.1 paragraph 4 says that the
> MX
> data contains a domain that must return an A or AAAA record; all other
> responses are invalid (outside the standard).
> 
> My configuration is:
> 
> mydomain.com MX mail.hosting.com
> mail.hosting.com CNAME server.hosting.com
> server.hosting.com A 1.1.1.1
> 
> So, this is invalid.
> 

Yes.  You should have ...


mydomain.com MX  server.hosting.com.


Be sure you add a "." at the end of your MX target spec (assuming you're
using a bind-like zone file setup) otherwise your name server will add
the default domain after the MX target.



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