> From: Ryan Rawdon > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 7:06 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records?
> No solution to the issue was found in the various forks of that thread, > however one individual afflicted by this issue (the OP) seems to have > resolved his specific issue with Hotmail by fixing his MX records to be > in stricter compliance with RFCs and best practices (removed a CNAME) - > that said, per the quote above Hotmail should not have been falling > back to the A records or any other RRs for the hostname. I would say MX pointing to a CNAME instead of pointing to an A record is the #1 cause of intermittent mail delivery problems I have seen. Some MTAs seem to tolerate it, some don't. G
