On 2008-04-04 11:21:46 -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote:
At 6:58 PM +0200 4/4/08, Michael Storz wrote:
Now, we can speculate
- Is the missing MX RR by intention?
Yes. Is there an email address at mail.imc.org that you wanted to send mail
to.
Yes, there is. Or maybe I don't want to, but my MTA may want to:
<owner-ietf-smtp(_at_)mail(_dot_)imc(_dot_)org>
This address is accepted, but random addresses at mail.imc.org aren't:
250 2.1.5 <owner-ietf-smtp(_at_)mail(_dot_)imc(_dot_)org>... Recipient ok
550 5.1.1 <dfhdffghfdgfhdfgdfhdfg(_at_)mail(_dot_)imc(_dot_)org>... User unknown
or we could just ask Paul Hoffman :-)
Or, you can be more specific. What is the problem of a host that is
never expected to be on the RHS of an email address expected to have
an MX record?
It may not be expected to be there, but it is - just look at the return
path of any message of this list.
That's an honest question, given that it has been over
12 years with the current setup.
The current setup is RFC-2821 compliant (although one could quibble
whether mail.imc.org is really the "canonical" name of the host). It's
just an example where a domain name without an MX record is on the RHS
of email addresses. That doesn't seem to be intentional, judging from
your reaction.
hp
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