abc.com and www.abc.com

[Larry Sheldon]

It was said that:

> There is ONE thing you should be aware of. You will need to make sure
> you set the MX Record to the appropriate host. And sorry, but I can't
> remember clearly, it's been a while, I think you want to use a CNAME
> record for the abc.com name, otherwise the SMTP Process will think it's
> a host, and deliver mail there instead of to the MX record host. It
> tries to deliver to hosts before it forwards to the MX record.

I am prepared to learn, but my current belief is that only broken mailers
do that.
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