[ On Thursday, October 23, 2003 at 16:29:04 (+0100), Ollie Cook wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [Exim] Refuse connection if no MX for sending host
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:33:53AM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > There _should_ always be an MX for every domain name that is a host name
> > of a mailer, and the target name of the MX should be the same domain
> > name:
> >
> > mail.weird.com. IN A 204.92.254.2
> > IN MX 1 mail.weird.com.
>
> That shouldn't be necessary since if no MX records are found, mailers should
> (and Exim does) try to deliver to the host indicated by any A records.
You miss the point entirely.
The purpose here is to always identify every SMTP host with its own MX.
Note this has been common and recommended practice for decades.
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