* Patrick Kirk (patrick@kirks.net) [030522 08:32]: > AOL blocks your email if you both these conditions: > > 1. Your are sending via your own smtp server > and > 2. Your smtp server does not have a MX record > > AOL is not alone in this - in the UK many acedemic and scientific > establishments ahve a similiar rule. Really? Is AOL not just checking some list of known dialup/residential netblocks? Requiring the existence of MX RRs is just broken, by RFC 2821: If no MX records are found, but an A RR is found, the A RR is treated as if it was associated with an implicit MX RR, with a preference of 0, pointing to that host. (Section 5, Address Resolution and Mail Handling) good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." -- Barry Goldwater
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