From: Ken D'Ambrosio (kenjots.org)
Date: Sun Feb 03 2008 - 09:47:51 CST

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> Ken D'Ambrosio:
>> Hi, all. I tried sending an e-mail to a domain, and got a bounce
>> telling me that there was no associated MX record. I thought SMTP
>> was supposed to
>> failover and try the hostname, itself, no? Port 25 on the host is open,
>> and seems to be accepting mail to users at that domain (I checked via
>> telnet). Is there some parameter I'm missing somewhere to get Postfix
>> to try this?
>
> Please show the complete error message.
>
> I use Postfix to send to non-MX destinations every day.

[stock bounce stuff deleted]

<zackzackbrown.com>: Host or domain name not found. Name service error for
    name=zackbrown.com type=MX: Host not found, try again

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