RE: [courier-users] bad MX problems...

2003-09-24 Thread Jon Nelson
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Malcolm Weir wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Thomas von Hassel > > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 12:17 AM > > [ Snip ] > > > I have to disagree, while it can be a pain in the butt to deal with > > disgruntled users and idiot admins, if we start slacking

RE: [courier-users] bad MX problems...

2003-09-24 Thread Malcolm Weir
> -Original Message- > From: Phillip Hutchings > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 1:26 AM [ Snip ] > > Which leads to the inevitable observation that there are no prizes for > > conformance to the RFC, but there are for getting the job done. The > > job of > > a mail transfer agent is

Re: [courier-users] bad MX problems...

2003-09-24 Thread Phillip Hutchings
On Wednesday, Sep 24, 2003, at 19:50 Pacific/Auckland, Malcolm Weir wrote: -Original Message- From: Thomas von Hassel Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 12:17 AM [ Snip ] I have to disagree, while it can be a pain in the butt to deal with disgruntled users and idiot admins, if we start

RE: [courier-users] bad MX problems...

2003-09-24 Thread Malcolm Weir
> -Original Message- > From: Thomas von Hassel > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 12:17 AM [ Snip ] > I have to disagree, while it can be a pain in the butt to deal with > disgruntled users and idiot admins, if we start slacking up on things > like this we end up with a set of RFC's th

Re: [courier-users] bad MX problems...

2003-09-24 Thread Thomas von Hassel
On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 11:27 PM, Evelyn Pichler wrote: I second that (and yes, I also got users asking me what this RFC thing is they are getting...) Ev Well, to finish this lengthy read, I made some minor modifications in order to avoid the infamous "This domain's MX violates RFC

Re: [courier-users] bad MX problems...

2003-09-23 Thread Eduardo Roldan
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 16:35, Carlos Paz wrote: > > I would prefer Sam to produce an official patch, and give us the choice > to perform this checks or no. "BE_A_MX_WHORE" sounds like a good name > for the controlling env var I think ;-) Agreed.

Re: [courier-users] bad MX problems...

2003-09-23 Thread Evelyn Pichler
I second that (and yes, I also got users asking me what this RFC thing is they are getting...) Ev Well, to finish this lengthy read, I made some minor modifications in order to avoid the infamous "This domain's MX violates RFC 1035" messages. I'm sending the diff files for your review. If anyo

[courier-users] bad MX problems...

2003-09-23 Thread Carlos Paz
Hi, I've been a happy courier user for almost 2 years, but one little thing that always has been bugging me on the administration side, is the way courier deals with invalid MX records pointing to IP addresses. Yes, I'm totally aware that the domain with broken MX records is at fault, but telling