[69303] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mailserver requirements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Mon Apr 5 17:10:22 2004
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 23:09:45 +0200
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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* arnold@nipper.de (Arnold Nipper) [Mon 05 Apr 2004, 23:04 CEST]:
> Today I run across a MTA which refused to accept mail because it could
> not detect an MX record for the reverse mapping of the IP address of the
> server which tried to deliver mail. Is this correct?
Any mail server operator is of course free to implement such a policy,
but no RFC exists to back it up.
MX records aren't needed to send mail; an A record is enough.
-- Niels.
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