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

[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.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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