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? -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The QuakeForge Project (http://quakeforge.net/) 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 === This letter is the Honor System Virus ==== If you are running a Macintosh, OS/2, Unix, or Linux computer, please randomly delete several files from your hard disk drive and forward this message to everyone you know. ============================================== -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
