question about CNAME and MX
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
J.deBoynePollard at Tesco.NET
Mon Mar 22 02:58:30 UTC 2004
MU> The problem can be, that any @comceptsolutions.com destination
MU> address @would be rewritten by sender MTA's (if they follow the
MU> RFC) to @comcept.net, if he used "comceptsolutions.com. CNAME
MU> comcept.net.
Leaving aside the issue with those DNS data themselves: Any SMTP Relay client
rewriting mailbox names in that fashion is out of date. The notion of SMTP
Relay clients rewriting mailbox names by chasing client-side DNS aliases was
finally quashed in the SMTP world some 3 years ago. The SMTP Relay clients
that "follow the RFC" will _not_ operate as you describe.
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