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Re: [cobalt-users] Name based hosting - Raq4
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Name based hosting - Raq4
- From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Aug 22 18:08:22 2001
- Organization: nobaloney.net
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
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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