Re: [exim4] mixed up about terminology
On 10/18/2014 4:41 PM, Joe wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:15:16 -0400
> Jerry Stuckle <jstuckle@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> You obviously don't understand. MX records identify MTAs - that is,
>> machines which can receive email. MUAs cannot do that.
>>
>> To identify an MUA with an MX record would be a violation of the
>> domain name system.
>>
>
> And I'm reasonably sure I've never seen *anyone* suggest that an MX
> record should point to a host running only an MUA. I don't understand
> why you're labouring the point when nobody is arguing with you.
>
That's EXACTLY what lee was saying.
> Nor indeed that an MX record should point to a host running an MTA,
> *unless* that MTA was a Mail eXchanger. Every Linux computer I've ever
> seen runs an MTA, but in very few of them was the MTA a mail exchanger,
> which is what requires a DNS MX record.
>
No, an A record will also work.
> Nobody is arguing over TLAs here, just how you configure the things,
> specifically where exim4 on Debian is the MTA, and very specifically
> when it is accepting unauthenticated mail on port 25, as practically
> every MTA with an MX record does.
>
And MUAs don't. But lee doesn't seem to understand the difference.
Jerry
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