Email invalid if it has no A record

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When attempting to use a recovery email, the domain that I use does not have an A record (but has valid mx records) but gets rejected with the following error:

Content: ‘{“type”:“urn:acme:error:malformed”,“detail”:“Error creating new registration :: Validation of contact mailto:valid@email.xyz failed: Server failure at resolver”,“status”:400}’

I don’t believe an A record should be required on the email domain, better to validate mx records only.

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Best report that on the ACME servers issue tracker: https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder/issues

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Thanks! We’ve got an open issue and are planning to fix it: https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder/issues/1197

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Awesome, glad its on your radar.