Re: Postfix will not deliver to domain without MX record ?

["Anand Buddhdev" <arb anand org>]

> I thought it was a sacred rule to always have an MX record in DNS,
otherwise
> sendmail or postfix can't do much of anything.
> -eric wood

Well yes, the RFCs recommend that you always have an MX record. However, all
MTAs that I know of (including postfix) will, as a last resort, look up the
A record
of a domain, and connect to that, if they cannot find an MX record.

> > Lars wrote:
> >>
> >> Can anybody explain how to get postfix to deliver mail to a
> >> domain that does not have an MX record i.e somedomain.com
> >> does not have a MX record so delivery is tried to somedomain.com
> >> via smtp.

--
Anand