Re: Sending mail to a domain w/o an MX?

From: Ken D'Ambrosio (no email)
Date: Sun Feb 03 2008 - 10:47:51 EST

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    > Ken D'Ambrosio:
    >> Hi, all. I tried sending an e-mail to a domain, and got a bounce
    >> telling me that there was no associated MX record. I thought SMTP
    >> was supposed to
    >> failover and try the hostname, itself, no? Port 25 on the host is open,
    >> and seems to be accepting mail to users at that domain (I checked via
    >> telnet). Is there some parameter I'm missing somewhere to get Postfix
    >> to try this?
    >
    > Please show the complete error message.
    >
    > I use Postfix to send to non-MX destinations every day.

    [stock bounce stuff deleted]

    <>: Host or domain name not found. Name service error for
        name=zackbrown.com type=MX: Host not found, try again

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