From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 25 14:16:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pilchuck.reedmedia.net (pilchuck.reedmedia.net [209.166.74.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DD1F37B404 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:16:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from reed by pilchuck.reedmedia.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16fTQ1-0003OF-00; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:16:25 -0800 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:16:25 -0800 (PST) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" To: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: blocked mail In-Reply-To: <20020225161002.I47910@over-yonder.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 12:08:59PM -0800 I heard the voice of > Jeremy C. Reed, and lo! it spake thus: > > > > If you don't have an MX record then it tries the A record (which is the IP > > for the hostname). > > Not if your mailer follows the RFC's strictly. Where is this documented? Section 5 of RFC 2821 says: ... If no MX records are found, but an A RR is found, the A RR is treated as if it was associated with an implicit MX RR, with a preference of 0, pointing to that host. If one or more MX RRs are found for a given name, SMTP systems MUST NOT utilize any A RRs associated with that name unless they are located using the MX RRs; the "implicit MX" rule above applies only if there are no MX records present. If MX records are present, but none of them are usable, this situation MUST be reported as an error. Jeremy C. Reed http://www.reedmedia.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message