[dns-operations] Why would an MTA issue an ANY query instead of an MX query?

[SM]

Hi Roland.
At 03:33 10-06-2012, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
>If that's it, then would asking djb to change its behavior so as to 
>issue TXT requests to look for SPF records make sense?

There is a thread at 
https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2009-October/004542.html 
about whether changes in behavior will happen. The issue may not be 
SPF (see one of the patches 
http://www.saout.de/misc/spf/qmail-spf-rc5.patch ).

Regards,
-sm