On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:15:16 -0400 Jerry Stuckle <jstuc...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> > You obviously don't understand. MX records identify MTAs - that is, > machines which can receive email. MUAs cannot do that. > > To identify an MUA with an MX record would be a violation of the > domain name system. > And I'm reasonably sure I've never seen *anyone* suggest that an MX record should point to a host running only an MUA. I don't understand why you're labouring the point when nobody is arguing with you. Nor indeed that an MX record should point to a host running an MTA, *unless* that MTA was a Mail eXchanger. Every Linux computer I've ever seen runs an MTA, but in very few of them was the MTA a mail exchanger, which is what requires a DNS MX record. Nobody is arguing over TLAs here, just how you configure the things, specifically where exim4 on Debian is the MTA, and very specifically when it is accepting unauthenticated mail on port 25, as practically every MTA with an MX record does. -- 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/20141018214148.4982b...@jresid.jretrading.com
