On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, John Henders wrote:
> Thanks, I see now. Of course in this case, all the virtual interface
> addresses have MX's pointing to other places, but if it's an RFC
> requirement I won't argue.
Independently of any RFC requirement, it is sensible for an MTA to know
what the local addresses are, so that it can take evasive action if it
finds out that a supposedly "remote" domain ends up pointing at one of
them (via an MX record or A record or even via an IP literal). If it did
not, there could be some embarrassing endless looping...
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