On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:53:26AM -0500, Sam wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Einar Bordewich wrote:
>
> > Does a mailserver always look at the MX record, and not the A record
> > for a domain?
>
> Yes.
I never had troubles with A Records pointing to something different then
MX-Records. But I had big trouble, when I tried using a CNAME for the
domain, instead of an A record.
using:
domain.com MX 25 smtp.domain.com
domain.com CNAME www.domain.com
www.domain.com A 1.1.1.1
smtp.domain.com A 1.1.1.2
made sendmail send mails to our webserver... ;-)
> > Back a few years, I know we had a problem related to mail going to the
> > webserver instead the mailserver, when the domain was set up with an A
> > record that was different than the IP address of the hostname pointed
> > to by MX. Does this still count, or is this a solved issue?
>
> This was never the case with Qmail.
well - since the problems are with the sender, using qmail for your own
mail-server doesn�t help you...
greetings, Florian Pflug
