> -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Humphrey > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 10:33 AM > Subject: DNS Report/Sendmail > > > I am running a RH 8.0 box with up2date sendmail and when I got to > www.dnsreport.com i get the following error. Anyone know what > the cause is? > > WARN: One or more of your mailservers does not accept mail in > the domain literal format ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Mailservers are > technically required RFC1123 5.2.17 to accept mail to domain literals > for any of its IP addresses. Not accepting domain literals can make > it more difficult to test your mailserver, and can prevent you from > receiving E-mail from people reporting problems with your mailserver. > However, it is unlikely that any problems will occur if the domain > literals are not accepted. > > mail.rhumphrey.com's [EMAIL PROTECTED] response: > >>> RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <<< 550 5.7.1 ... Relaying denied. IP name possibly forged > [69.2.200.182]
I get the same warning at this end. Technically, dnsreports is correct (RFC reference), but personally, I do not plan on fixing this type of warning. Steve Cowles -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
