[UPHPU] CNAME or A for MX value

[Wade Preston Shearer]

I have the following DNS record:

example.com, MX, mail.example.com


…then…

mail.example.com, A, 192.168.1.1


This works but would it be more proper to have the "mail.example.com"  
record be a CNAME?
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