Re: sendmail?
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 11:22:08AM -0500, Sahil Tandon wrote:
> bill lam wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, David Maus wrote:
> > > So you *could* set up such software on your box that does the
> > > delivery but you probably wouldn't be happy with this solution as some
> > > mail providers do not accept delivery attempts from dynamic ip
> > > addresses for spam prevention.
> >
> > More specifically, it needs a mx record in order to delivery email. I
> > don't think dynamic ip host will provide you a mx record. If you
> > register a domain name, you can setup your own mx records, however if
> > spams were sent, it will be blacklisted.
>
> This is false; you do not need an MX record to send or receive mail.
True, but many email systems will no longer accept email that
comes from a system/address with no valid MX record. Yet another
spam defense technique. As a result, if you don't have an MX
record much of your mail may be rejected, so these days having an
MX record is "almost" a requirement.
Jeff Kinz
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