Re: simple email validation ereg
| From: | Jason Wong | Date: | Mon, 03 Jun 2002 14:38:20 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: simple email validation ereg | ||
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On Monday 03 June 2002 21:35, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> So sprach Jason Wong am 2002-06-03 um 12:10:29 +0800 :
> > The lack of an MX record doesn't necessarily mean mail will not get
> > through, so you cannot use that as a test for whether the address is
> > valid.
>
> It will not? Do you have an example? How is a mail server supposed to
> know where the mail should be delivered if there's no MX?
For domains without an MX record the MTA should try to deliver to the IP
address.
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