[plug] explicit e-mail routing; postfix/sendmail

[Christian]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 07:03:12PM +0800, Mike Holland wrote:
> > I'm fairly sure that the SMTP specification says that an MTA should
> > wait for a valid DNS resolution of the destination host's MX --
> > otherwise weird things would happen everytime a nameserver played up.
> 
> I thought if there was no MX, it would fallback to looking for a host.
> Apparently not.

I thought this too but my machine at uni has no MX record and yet I can
send email directly to it.  I think the exact spec must be a little more
complicated.

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