Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records?

[Tony Finch <dot () dotat at>]

That would be a seriously broken violation of the SMTP specification.

Tony.
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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.
>
>
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