I wonder why it works with so many mailers then? I DID say the convention is to "do it right" and not to "confuse anybody", but I believe I've successfully delivered mail that way, many years ago.
It doesn't matter tho, he's got a proper MX record now. Dan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sanford Whiteman Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 2:33 PM To: Rod Dorman Subject: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] OT: mx record is there, yet isn't > There is no mention of successively pruning the FQDN hoping to get a > hit. Never seen that here either. It's not only non-RFC and counterintuitive, but it would result in a giant waste of resources if offered as an option. The correct way to emulate such behavior is with a wilcard MX, which has its own well-known caveats. --Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/relea se/ Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange or IMail mailboxes into IMail Aliases! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/downl oad/release/ http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/ldap2aliases/download/ release/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
