Re: fake MX records

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Richard Frovarp wrote:

> Michael Scheidell wrote:
>
> > Yes, and some systems might not ever send you email (they violate
> > RFC's)
>
> We've had one issue with this. ... There was on weird mailer that
> is being used that doesn't try other MXs. We were able to get past
> this by opening up the firewall to this small business to accept
> their mail.

Just for the record, what MTA were they using that behaved that way?

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