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Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records?
From: Tony Finch <dot () dotat at>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 00:16:48 +0100
That would be a seriously broken violation of the SMTP specification. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <dot () dotat at> http://dotat.at/ On 26 Jul 2012, at 08:21, Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com> wrote:
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)
Current thread:
- Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records? Lou Katz (Jul 26)
- Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jul 26)
- Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records? Ryan Rawdon (Jul 26)
- Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records? Tony Finch (Jul 27)
- Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records? Jimmy Hess (Jul 27)
- Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records? David Miller (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? 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? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jul 26)
- 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)