Richard / Jeffrey,


On Mar 24, 2005 10:52 AM, Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey at goldmark dot org> wrote:
> On Mar 24, 2005, at 2:30 AM, Richard Parvass wrote:
> 
> > FYI, CNAMEs are prohibited in MX records, according to RFC1912 2.4,
> > and RFC2181 10.3.
> 
> Indeed.

That's kinda odd and good to know.  I don't run my own DNS, but use a
3rd party provider for my DNS, and oddly enough I use a CNAME in the
data field of my MX record and things work out... but I guess it's at
least nice to know it's not supposed to work in case it breaks in the
future.


/sylikc