You're right -- there's no doubt that the TXT record is useful (or was
;-) ). But my point is that the lookups (according to the spec) were to be
done on A records, and the TXT records fetched if you wanted that
description. This is two lookups, so no qmail person would settle for that
(humour). That was the jist of my original coment.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mate Wierdl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 06:34:21PM -0400, Michael T. Babcock wrote:
> > The best approach to this is to have rblsmtpd use A records, as it
should
> > have from the beginning (that's what you get for optimising solely for
> > speed, not for correctness).
>
> But then the TXT record is really useful: it does give a clue to the
> client how to get out of the mess.
