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Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet



On 22/03/18 09:21, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> One heuristic that is commonly used is to reject all messages where
> the HELO doesn't even syntactically qualify as a valid FQDN -- in other
> words, has no dot in it.

I often see this alluded to, but struggle to find evidence - why
shouldn't there be a postmaster@com, for example? Or perhaps cic@mil?

Is there any reason you can't have an A, MX or any other record on a
TLD? Or even the root, though I concede that abuse@. would be easier to
understand than just abuse@ [attempts to end sentence without a dot]

Presumably there's an RFC that covers this somewhere, but I can't find it.

I want richard@nz :-)

Richard

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