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On 13/02/2013 23:16, Jon Morby wrote:
> Is anyone else seeing problems with hotmail customers getting email
> into their hosted domains?
> 
> We're seeing issues where by hotmail seem to be totally ignoring
> the MX records and going straight for the A record … which doesn't
> always work when their mail is hosted on another box and the A
> record is purely a web server
> 
> I would see this periodically but very randomly and no-one at
> hotmail seemed to think it was an issue, however this seems to have
> gotten a whole lot worse this week with all inbound emails from
> hotmail to fido.net <http://fido.net>, redmail.com
> <http://redmail.com>, etc totally ignoring the MX's (not even
> trying them) and going straight to the A record
> 
> Any suggestions gratefully received

There was a long thread on this subject over on [email protected].
entitled "Hotmail ignoring MX, going direct to @ IN A?" in March/April
last year. I don't think it contains any answers, but you may find it
interesting.

James

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