Re: "MX->CNAME considered harmful" considered harmful.

From: Greg A. Woods (no email)
Date: Thu Nov 01 2001 - 16:20:32 EST


[ On Thursday, November 1, 2001 at 15:19:32 (-0500), Wietse Venema wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: "MX->CNAME considered harmful" considered harmful.
>
> Postfix needs an explicit mydestination setting, because the core
> of Postfix is not DNS (or SMTP) centric.

Yes, and that's potentially even more important for a modular mailer
like Postfix than a monolithic one like Smail where the SMTP client can
figure out right at the time it validates the "RCPT TO:" whether or not
it is able to deliver (or forward) the message to the specified
recipient.

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							Greg A. Woods
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