UNIX hosts and MX "best practice"

[Barry Margolin]

In article <24134.949137950 at gromit.rfc1035.com>,
Jim Reid  <jim at rfc1035.com> wrote:
>    Barry> I assumed we were only discussing whether a host should
>    Barry> have an MX record pointing to itself, versus just depending
>    Barry> on the A record.
>
>IIRC, the original question was "Should my hosts have MX records or not?
>What's the best practice?"

I just looked at the original post.  His second sentence asked "To assign
an MX record to itself, or leave it unspecified?"

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