On Dec 27, 2008, at 7:10 PM, jkinz@xxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 06:55:26PM -0500, Sahil Tandon wrote:jkinz@xxxxxxxx wrote:On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 01:33:47PM -0500, Sahil Tandon wrote:jkinz mentioned the connecting "system"; that is to say, the connecting client. That client needn't be the MX for the domain from which emailis arriving.Negative, "system" -- that is to say "domain" in this case.system != domain in technical discourse, so no.Consider yourself surprised..Consider yourself corrected.email systems (domains) that don't have mx's will find themselves havingproblems despite the fact that its not an rfc requirement.Truism. That is an entirely different statement than saying (as you didin your original post)You can interpret it any way you like to make your position correct. and you will. That petty game is played by many.
That was a cute monologue.
I'm mostly interested in conveying useful information.
FUD is not useful; best take interest in conveying accurate information.
Anyone who wants to send out their own email will find their life better with an mx record, just like "tandon.net" has.
This thread is going more and more off topic; agree to disagree and close this thread. All replies go to /dev/null. Thanks everyone for your interesting opinions.