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From: craig@bbn.com (Craig Partridge)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: question about SMTP MX records
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Date: 22 Oct 90 12:04:20 GMT
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In article <tim.656457948@ggumby> tim@ggumby.cs.caltech.edu (Timothy L. Kay) writes:
>Fine, but how do we get Silicon Graphics to provide a mailer that supports
>MX records?  Is there a way of putting pressure on them, such as being able
>to claim that their machines violate internet standards or somesuch?

    Any host which does not support MX RR's in the mailer is not
Host Requirements conformant.  See page 65 of RFC 1123.