Re: Eric Sunshine mail delivery failure

From: Johannes Löthberg <johannes@kyriasis.com>
Date: Aug 23, 2015, 17:16 UTC
Message-ID: <20150823171622.GA28700@zorg.kyriasis.com>
In-Reply-To: <55D993F8.4080506@web.de>

On 23/08, René Scharfe wrote:

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>Eric, hope you see this reply on the list. Direct replies to 
>sunshine@sunshineco.com are rejected by my mail provider on submit in 
>Thunderbird with the following message:
>
>    Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable
>    invalid DNS MX or A/AAAA resource record.
>
>And with this one when using their web interface:
>
>    A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of
>    its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address
>    failed:
>
>    "sunshine@sunshineco.com":
>    no valid MX hosts found
>
>It seems web.de wants you to get an AAAA record before I'm allowed to 
>send mails to you.  Sounds crazy.  Sorry about that.  Time to find a
>better provider, I guess. :-(
>

Just an A record would be enough. The issue is that mail.sunshineco.com has neither an A nor an AAAA record, it is a CNAME to sunshineco.com, which is invalid according to RFC2181.

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