mydomain.com does not need to have an A-Record for a MX-Record to work. bye norman
Am Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2011 schrieb Anton Melser <melser.an...@gmail.com>: > Hi, >>> Random slightly OT question here (sorry) - I have created a few MX >>> records recently and I haven't bothered to create host records. Does >>> anyone know if I should be creating them? So if I want to send from >>> >>> an...@email.example.com >>> >>> Then I have been just creating the sub-domain email.example.com and >>> putting an mx record that points to another domain: >>> >>> foo.example.com >>> >>> Everything *seems* fine - has anyone encountered any problems with this? >>> Cheers >>> Anton > ... >> I usually define MX records with hostnames that belong in other domains >> (these names being resolved with A records from the other domain). >> >> From http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1035: >> MX is a "A <domain-name> which specifies a host willing to act as a mail >> exchange for the owner name", so if I understand well, no IP address can be >> used. >> >> This is why I tend to check via ping if they are correctly resolved. >> I'm not sure if you can define MX records with plain IP adresses. > > I'll try and explain myself better... > I have a domain that I want to send email from: > myu...@mydomain.com > > I create the domain "mydomain.com". I create a *MX* record for > mydomain.com with a value "mail.mydomain.com". "mail.mydomain.com" > must have a host record, otherwise no one would be able to find my > smtp server. The question is whether "mydomain.com" needs to have a > host record. I didn't think so, but maybe I'm wrong. > Do you guys have any ideas about this? > Thanks > Anton > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-user-unsubscr...@james.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: server-user-h...@james.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-user-unsubscr...@james.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: server-user-h...@james.apache.org
