Re: [Exim] Address rewriting vs. CNAME records?

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Author: Vadim Vygonets
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Address rewriting vs. CNAME records?
Quoth Giuliano Gavazzi on Thu, Feb 06, 2003:
> At 0:38 +0200 2003/02/07, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> >The MX record for both should point to bar.my.dom (well,
> >technically, as long as bar.my.dom is the only mail exchanger for
> >itself, the MX record may be omitted, but I like to have it).
>
> well, it would probably be more correct to say that (the host)
> bar.my.dom. is the only mail exchanger for the domain of the same
> name.. this is why MX records should never be omitted, the left and
> right hand side are never the same thing.


I didn't omit MX records. And, as I mentioned it in my initial
message on the subject, I solved the problem by putting A records
instead of some CNAME records. My questions were purely
theoretical.

> This is in RFC 7821.


I *hope* you mean 2821 :)

Vadik.

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