Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records?

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)