Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records?
Tony Finch
dot at dotat.at
Fri Jul 27 23:16:48 UTC 2012
That would be a seriously broken violation of the SMTP specification.
Tony.
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f.anthony.n.finch <dot at dotat.at> http://dotat.at/
On 26 Jul 2012, at 08:21, Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> If the MX records are not responsive / timing out, they might be falling
> back to the A record.
>
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Lou Katz <lou at metron.com> wrote:
>
>> One of my users has reported incoming mail failures, which I finally
>> tracked down. It turned out that Hotmail has seen fit to send the mail
>> to his domain's A record machine, despite the fact that he has valid MX
>> records.
>>
>> The A record points to my webserver, which does not normally accept mail
>> for anyone. The mail server MX records are to an entirely different
>> machine.
>>
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> Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists at gmail.com)
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