Re: Beating the spam filter ...

In article <44d0b693$0$74116$815e3792@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Taylor, Grant" <gtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

base60 wrote:
You'll note in the MX section that your MX record points to
a CNAME (alias).

Also note that this is considered illegal.

I would say that using a CNAME as an MX record is more frowned upon than
illegal as this is a commonly accepted practice.

Not rare perhaps, but accepted only by people on the heavy side of
Sturgeon's Law.

RFC's are not lawa, but they do define ways to be interoperable. I
invite you to read:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc974.txt Page 6
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1034.txt section 3.6.2
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1912.txt section 2.4
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2181.txt section 10.3

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