Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:46:08 +0100 From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> To: marka@isc.org, ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, avg@icyb.net.ua Subject: Re: cname replace in mail address? [off-topic] (Re: Attn Ronald Klop) Message-ID: <E1OovVg-0009O0-8F@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> In-Reply-To: <op.vh3ay3dx8527sy@212-123-145-58.ip.telfort.nl>
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> Mandatory? I'm googling, but can't find a document that declares it > mandatory and only sendmail seems to do it. > I think it is lame to use DNS info to rewrite e-mail addresses, but the > person who made it 'mandatory' will have good reasons for it. Rewiting may not be mandatory, but it is certainly true that a domain needs to have either an A record or an MX record to recieve email according to the spec. Your has neither, and given the presence of a CNAME then rewriting the address to use that CNAME doesnt seem like an unreasonable thing to do. You should add an MX record to that domain - but mixing MX and CNAME is a fairly bad idea too (and that should be easily found in google). -pete.
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