Right, so we now have psychic MTA's which automagically deduce which of
your hosts is the mail server?

Amazing!

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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> Behalf Of Chris Scharff
> Sent: 07 February 2006 16:21
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: RE: Not receiving email
> 
> Mx records are not required. Any MTA which doesn't 'fall 
> back' to using an A record when no Mx record is present is a 
> POS and has no business in a production environment. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> Redyhosting is wrong, there is no MX record on 
> plymouthcovenant.org nor mail.plymouthcovenant.org. Some 
> email servers will fall back to the A record....but that is a 
> crap shoot.
> 
> 
> 
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