On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 07:32:40 +0100 Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 09:05:14PM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > Among other things, legitimate MTAs have MX records. > > Not necessarily. In the absence of an MX record an A record is > perfectly legitimate. > > And as I've pointed out to Jerry, a lot of businesses outsource their incoming email to commercial spam-cleaning services, as well as larger businesses using separate send and receive servers, and some businesses receiving email direct but sending via a smarthost. In each of these cases, the MX would not necessarily have any connection with the mail sending address. My IP address A-PTR record pair have no direct connection with any of the email domains I use, with any MX, or any HELO strings I send. There's no one size fitting all with email. Heck, some people use Yahoo... -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141013104300.2f2ff...@jresid.jretrading.com
