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

[sm5w2 at hotmail.com]

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.

PS:  Um - I don't think there's any relationship between your MX record
(or if you even have an MX record) and how people experience your web
site.

> Suddenly now, you need you're A record to point to the web host,
> instead of your mail server...

In our case, our organization is "hidden" behind a single, static, IP
address.  Our DSL modem (speed stream 6300) is performing
port-forwarding of port-25 and port-80 traffic to fixed IP's on our
local network.