Some MTA's won't deliver to a domain without an MX. Why not have one?
Really? Which ones?
According to dyndns.org:
Many people think that you need an MX record to receive mail. This is incorrect. In the absence of an MX, mail to a machine (for example, mail to @who-needs-an-mx.dyndns.org or @yourcustomdns.com) will be handled by that
machine (in the case of my example, the machine at who-needs-an-mx.dyndns.org
or at yourcustomdns.com). This is the behavior that most people running mail
servers on their home machines want. For this reason, we do not recommend that
users wanting a basic mail configuration set up an MX. It is not necessary, and
it is possible to make mistakes in the MX record that will cause mail to end up
somewhere else.
Who's right?
C
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