> This practice is so common all the major doamins allow you to type
> their domains with out a host and arrive directly at their website.
> How does that translate to not knowing how to setup DNS?
No, that's a perfect way to set yourself up--as long as you also have
MX records.
>> If you have an MX record, "implicit MX" is disabled, and no one should
>> then be hitting the A record unless they're broken.
>>
>> > Delivering to the 'A' record is bad.
> But I have see on this list Iamil using the 'A' record even when MX records
> are setup???
Only broken versions of IMail.
> When almost all domains now setup an 'A' record for their domain
> (basically a wildcard) that points to their web server. I would say
> that it is very deprecated and should no longer be used.
The "implicit MX" only takes effect when there are no MX records, so
there's nothing wrong with delivering to the A when the domain is not
set up by someone knowledgeable enough to separate the two to reflect
the actual separation of server functions.
> The would you consider Imails algorithm broken. Since it will send
> to the 'A' record for the domain???
Only the known-broken versions. It is fixed now, AFAIK.
--Sandy
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