That would be a seriously broken violation of the SMTP specification. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <dot@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ On 26 Jul 2012, at 08:21, Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@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@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.
-- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)