Re: [Exim] Refuse connection if no MX for sending host

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Auteur: Avleen Vig
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Aan: Tony Finch
CC: Exim Users Mailing List
Onderwerp: Re: [Exim] Refuse connection if no MX for sending host
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:12:28AM +0100, Tony Finch wrote:
> > Why the hell wouldn't you publish an MX for every mail server?!?!?!?!?
>
> Because there are no valid email addresses at that domain. See my previous
> comment about not supporting email delivery to arbitrary computers.


That doesn't matter.
Read RFC2142:
www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2142.html

If you offer a server (web, or mail, or news, or dns) you *should* be
accepting mail for the appropriate role accounts which means you *must*
have an MX record if you do.

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