You are correct that a machine does not need an MX record to receive mail sent to that machine; however, since Ryan's server is attempting to send his local mail off of the machine (rather than accept it locally) there is clearly a problem of some sort.
In my dealing with folks on the mailman list, a common problem is that they *have* mx records, and they are set incorrectly. So if you have a suggestion that might help Ryan, lets hear it. Jon Carnes On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 09:30, Christopher L Merrill wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chris Merrill | http://webperformanceinc.com > Web Performance Inc. | http://webperformancemonitoring.net > > Website Load Testing, Stress Testing, and Performance Monitoring Software > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
