Interesting.  I have never heard that before. 5.5 requires an mx record?



-----Original Message-----
From: Baker, Jennifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 12:35 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: No MX Record ?


5.5 requires an mx record to send mail.  This is not RFC behavior IMO.  E2k
does not require it and uses the "a" record if an "mx" record is not
present.

-----Original Message-----
From: RBHATIA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 9:24 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: No MX Record ?


I did look up the RFC...and am soliciting a response from this list since it
wasn't much help in resolving my problem.
Here is an excerpt from the RFC that doesn't apply to my Exchange server :
The lookup first attempts to locate an MX record associated with the name.
If a CNAME record is found instead,    the resulting name is processed as if
it were the initial name.  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.

In this case there is an A record associated with HOUSTONFEARLESS.COM -
65.204.137.153
So why do the emails still sit in the queue ?


-----Original Message-----
From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 12:19 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: No MX Record ?


RFC2821



-----Original Message-----
From: RBHATIA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 12:09 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: No MX Record ?


How does Exchange 5.5 handle mail in the absence of an MX record ?


-----Original Message-----
From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 12:13 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: No MX Record ?


One does not absolutely need a MX record to receive mail. 


-----Original Message-----
From: RBHATIA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 12:03 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: No MX Record ?


Hi,
I've been having problems sending email to users in a domain called
houstonfearless.com
The IMC queue states "Network error during host resolution".
I did some troubleshooting and it seems like the domain does not have an MX
record.
I'm running Exchange 5.5. SP4 that is using DNS to send email externally.
What's wierd though is that they are receiving email from other people. I
even sent them a test message from my YAHOO account and they received it.
Any ideas ??

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