Re: [ot] hosts that ignore mx records

From: Bruno Postle (no email)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 10:33:47 EST


On Fri 01-Nov-2002 at 02:22:02PM +0100, Marc Owen wrote:
>
> Some hosts try to connect to the A records of the domain (the bare
> domain name resolves to webserver ips) instead of using the mx
> records, and mail is refused because those (web)servers don't accept
> mail for the domain. They are webservers, not mailservers.

I asked this same question a while back. The answer is that you will
refuse a small but significant amount of non-spam @example.com mail if
you are listening on port 25 on an address that resolves example.com.

The solution is to: ignore it, bind postfix to a different address, or
(my favourite) put websites on http://www.example.com/ instead of
http://example.com/

-- 
Bruno
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