If a domain is telling me it does not accept emails, why should I accept
mail from such domain if I cannot reply back to it?

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.li...@gmail.com
> wrote:

> A domain with a null mx may well originate email but will absolutely not
> receive email - so mail gets trashed at your end as well without staying
> endlessly on your mall queues
>
> You can possibly correlate that mx with the behavior of domains that are
> sending you mail.. Though a domain rather than IP bl may make sense.
>
> --srs
>
> > On 28-Feb-2016, at 8:07 AM, Mark Jeftovic <mar...@easydns.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > What is an MTA supposed to do with a message addressed to a domain with
> > a NULL MX?
> >
> > RFC 7505 talks about domains with a NULL MX should not originate email
> > (in their sender envelopes, etc) but what about the converse?
> >
> > I'm looking at some logs and seeing attempts to deliver email to lots of
> > domains with NULL MX enabled (that have been so for years) and wondering
> > if I can safely mine these logs and add all the originating MTA IPs to
> > an internal RBL.
> >
> > I think I can. I think I will.
> >
> > - mark
> >
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