> James doesn't send mail to servers, despite what the <servername> element
> implies; we send e-mail to domains, based upon their MX records (although
> other apps violate the spec and try a domain's A record).

Not quite, if an MX record doesn't exist mail should be sent to the A record
host. (like @apache.org which has no MX and works just fine..)

> Frankly, the administrator SHOULD set a valid postmaster entry in the
> configuration file, as we tell them to, but we need to tell them to *not*
> use @localhost.
<snip>
>let them set the element as the configuration tells them
> to do.

Thats still a reasonable position to take. and root@localhost is still a
valid address.


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