[Mimedefang] DNS and MX records

Alan Premselaar alien at 12inch.com
Thu May 11 01:50:55 EDT 2006


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Les Mikesell wrote:
..snip..

> 
> The place this is likely to be a problem is where you have
> virtual web servers with names in lots of domains pointing
> to the same box and you do want to accept mail for some
> of those names.  Note that CNAMES take all the associated
> data for the related A records, so if you have an MX for
> the real A record, the CNAME'd names get it as well, and
> if you don't, mailers will follow the CNAME to the related
> A record.  

This last part doesn't make a lot of sense, considering it's not legal
to use a CNAME entry as an argument for your MX record.

of course, while an interesting topic none-the-less, none of this is
directly relevant to MIMEDefang.  Just thought I'd be the one to say it. ;)

Alan
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