How to contact Michale Cromeworth

Chris Adams linux at cmadams.net
Wed Jan 14 18:39:35 UTC 2015


Once upon a time, Jochen Schmitt <Jochen at herr-schmitt.de> said:
> I have retried to send the message without any success. But I have tried to
> maske an DNS query directly agins the Google DNS and have find out, that the
> hostname, which you have specified as a mail excahnge is a CNAME. But this is not
> allowed for MX records. MX records have to point to A reords instead of CNAME
> records.

MX->CNAME is against RFCs but in common enough real-world usage that
anything that doesn't handle it is generally considered broken.

However, that isn't the case for cchtml.com; the MX points to
cchtml.com, not mail.cchtml.com, and cchtml.com has an A record.

-- 
Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>


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