Re: Why qmail can not receive hotmail messages?

[Dave Sill]

Jost Krieger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:48:00AM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote:
>
>> 2) It is *not* the frigging MX record.  That has nothing to do with it.  Any
>> mailer that breaks when there is only an A record is a broken mailer.
>
>And who says so? I'm sure every mailer SHOULD fall back to the A record,
>but the RFCs don't demand it.

They don't demand it, but they do suggest it, and in practice, that's
the way things work. I've got dozens of systems with no MX entries
that receive mail from all over the Internet without any problems.

-Dave