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[Joseph S D Yao]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 05:49:43PM -0500, Chris Meadors wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, G. E. Terry wrote:
> > As far as I am aware, you need an mx record to route mail to.
> > At 04:42 PM 2/6/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> > >Can you recieve email without having an MX record? I seem to recall it using
> > >the A record instead.
> 
> Some mail servers will fall back to using the A record, but they are by no
> means required to, and in my opinion doing so is incorrect.

Strangely, your opinion is in direct conflict with the RFCs.  They are
required to.

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