I have a miling list on lists.canaan.co.il the MX for canaan.co.il is mail ( not
the same machine as lists )
But as lists dont have MX the Default MX for lists is the A of lists.
At least I hope im right :)
Oded Arbel wrote:
> Wrong.
> If you want to recieve mail, you must have an MX record. mail servers
> don't check and "guess" that if a domain has a 'mail.domain' host, then
> that's probably the mail relay. it doesn't work like that, or else all kinds
> of strange and wierd mess would happen. that's what standards are for.
>
> For a mail relay to send you mail, you must have an MX record pointing at
> your own mail relay.
>
> Oded
>
> --
> Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see.
> -- William Newton Clarke
>
> > I think you are right
> > what name server you use ?
> > bind 8.X check the A for MX if absent
> >
> > Ishai Parasol wrote:
> >
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > A question:
> > >
> > > Basicaly If I have a CNAME record *.mydomain.com and it's good for www &
> > > mail (the servers are being "called" with inet by the port) and I don't
> want
> > > to have a backup mail server, then I don't have any special reason to
> setup
> > > an MX record. Right ?
>
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