> It's safe to say that the product sucks.

Have you heard their new slogan?
Symantec: At least we're not CA.  

> Symantec's line is that they go by strict RFC rules - my 
> reply, was that's fine, but what about the real world rules?

The strict RFC rules do not say you MUST have an Mx record.[1] The
strict RFCs in fact special case the non-existence of an Mx and describe
_exactly_ what a mailer should do. From RFC 974[2]: It is possible that
the list of MXs in the response to the query will
   be empty.  This is a special case.  If the list is empty, mailers
   should treat it as if it contained one RR, an MX RR with a preference
   value of 0, and a host name of REMOTE.  (I.e., REMOTE is its only
   MX).  In addition, the mailer should do no further processing on the
   list, but should attempt to deliver the message to REMOTE. 




[1] I'm not arguing with you, just pointing out how full of shit they
are. 
[2] In this case substitute the domain without an Mx record for the word
REMOTE (e.g. company.com)

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