Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:20:46PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote:
> So? Anyone who asked for that would be unreasonable. Besides, nobody's mail
> server is telneting to your port 25 to see what your SMTP greeting says --
> that would be insane. It's a simple double-lookup. The PTR record is
> queried, and checked to see if it matches that particular A record. Not all
> MTA's even do this.
>
> The only other check that some MTA's perform is checking that the domain in
> the Mail From: header (the envelope sender) is a real domain.
>
> To sum up, your particular problem is not with DNS, it's with some fool
> arbitrarily blocking either you in particular, or some larger network which
> includes you.
I don't have such a problem. As you have agreed, any such requirement
would be unreasonable, so why are we arguing?
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