An A record is an MX record and is a missing MX....

Indra PRAMANA indra at indra.webvis.net
Fri Apr 4 02:36:29 UTC 2003


At 09:07 PM 4/3/2003 -0500, Craig Partridge wrote:
> >If you only have one mail exchange server to serve your domain, you don't
> >need MX records. An A record pointing to your mail server is sufficient.
>
>I think what you meant was that an A record for your domain name is
>sufficient.

Yes, that's what I meant.

>Recall, A records don't point to anything -- they simply provide the
>address.

Thanks for the correction.

-ip-




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