Do I really need an MX record? (for e-mail to work)

[Peter Dambier]

Daniel Stro"m wrote:
> I would seriously start thinking about letting your ISP handle all  
> your mailhosting, why even bother with this inhouse when all you got  
> is a cheap  cablemodem (?!). Let someone who actually got the  
> resources handle this and go on and spend your time on something more  
> useful.
> 

The problem is most BIG ISPs have a prime position on all kinds of
spam lists. If you really want to reach your clients or costumers
you must do it yourself.

I wonder how come, my dynamic ip can send email to people who dont
accept email neither from my ISP GMX nor from wannado.fr.

Not to mention the emails I did not receive because my ISP has the
ISP of my partner on his DSN Blacklist.

Ofcourse everybody inviting everybodyelse to google-mail might solve
that problem but I dont want to waste my time cutting and pasting
big lists into a webmailers screens 24 H per day.

Cheers
Peter and Karin


 > 22 dec 2005 kl. 05.07 skrev Barry Margolin:
> 
> 
>>In article <dod4ef$lae$1 at sf1.isc.org>, sm5w2 at hotmail.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Cormack, Ken wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>What would you do when marketing comes to you (as they did to us)  
>>>>and says
>>>>"We don't want to require our users to type "www.ourdomain.foo"  
>>>>in the
>>>>address for our web server.  We feel that's too much work.  We  
>>>>want them to
>>>>only have to type 'ourdomain.foo' into their browser, to hit our  
>>>>web site."
>>>
>>>I'm not sure what you mean, but let's see.
>>>
>>>If my domain is "somedomain.org", then naturally if someone out there
>>>went to their browser and entered "www.somedomain.org" then yes, that
>>>is working in my case, and it also works if someone enters
>>>"somedomain.org" into their address bar.
>>
>>If you don't have an MX record, this will only work if the same IP is
>>used for your web and mail servers.  This may be OK if everything is
>>hidden behind a single IP, but that's frequently not the case.
>>
>>-- 
>>Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
>>Arlington, MA
>>*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
>>*** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***
>>

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