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Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records?
From: Scott Howard <scott () doc net au>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:04:40 -0700
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Mark Andrews <marka () isc org> wrote:
You don't lookup MX records for MX targets. This is basic MTA processing. If the MX lookup fails, as apposed to returns nodata, you don't lookup the A/AAAA records and synthesis a MX record. You treat it as a soft error and queue for retry later. Again this is basic MTA processing.
And yet, Hotmail apparently is doing the exact opposite of that. Which means what 'should' happen or what 'should' be done isn't as relevant as we would all it to be. Given this, considering "unusual" things like the target of an MX record having an MX record it - whilst completely irrelevant for a well-behaved mail server - might actually be relevant here... Scott.
Current thread:
- Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records?, (continued)
- Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records? Michael J Wise (Jul 27)
- Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records? Mark Andrews (Jul 27)
- Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records? Michael J Wise (Jul 27)
- Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records? Lou Katz (Jul 26)
- Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records? Mark Foster (Jul 26)
- Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records? Michael J Wise (Jul 26)
- Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records? Mark Andrews (Jul 26)
- Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records? Michael J Wise (Jul 26)
- Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records? Mark Andrews (Jul 26)
- Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records? Scott Howard (Jul 27)
- Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records? William Herrin (Jul 29)
- Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records? Mark Andrews (Jul 30)
- Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records? William Herrin (Jul 30)
- Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records? valdis . kletnieks (Jul 30)
- Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records? Jimmy Hess (Jul 30)
- RE: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records? George Bonser (Jul 26)
- Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records? Lou Katz (Jul 26)