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Re: [cobalt-users] Name based hosting - Raq4



shawn wrote:

> Does it have to be like this?
> (A) record for host name 'mail' for 'domain.com' = IP ADDRESS
> Because I just have mail as a cname and it seems to work fine?

Because of the way many mailservers work, you should never have a CNAME
record for the target of an MX record.

Jeff
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