It appears that Jeff Pang via mailop <j...@simplemail.co.in> said: >As a old email provider, safe-mail.net has even no MX records, but using >A RR for incoming messages. do you know why they design this? for better >anti-abuse control?
Most likely they stumbled around decades ago setting up the DNS, found that worked, and haven't changed it. The spec is quite clear that in the absence of an MX record, you pretend there is a MX 0 pointing at the A record. It has no effect I can think of on abuse management. R's, John _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
