On 10/10/03 at 09:38, Bill Cole wrote:
> >> ....yet send a mail via my org's Exchange server and the mail gets
> >> through and the user replies!!!!
> >
> >Exchange is probably falling back to the A record for
> >innerprise.net, which does have an MTA that answers on port 25. SIMS
> >is obviously not trying it, presumably because there is an MX
> >record. Someone with better knowledge of the RFCs can tell us which
> >is the correct behavior.
>
> If there is an MX record, falling back to an A record for the name is
> never correct. An MX which points to a name that has no A is a
> misconfiguration that has to be fixed for any standards-complaint
> mail server to deliver to that domain.
That's what I thought, but I didn't want to state it as fact without
knowing for sure. 8^)
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