David F. Skoll wrote:
Or maybe I'll write a whole other paper called How to mess up email delivery
Out of frustration with Students and Faculty complaining that they could
not submit their homework because the outbound SPAM scanners rejected
it, I wrote the attached. Unfortunately, it only
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Please don't. It would just clutter the
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3.2 The Transport Layer.
Technically, there are more than two transport layers. However, it is not
necessary to enumerate them. Change this to say, perhaps: Two transport
layers of interest in mail delivery are: TCP and UDP.
Aren't those transport protocols... They run on the
Hi,
I've written a basic introduction to Internet email. Some of you
may find it a useful teaching resource. Anyway, please let me
know what you think.
http://www.roaringpenguin.com/files/email-101_0.pdf
Regards,
David.
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On 3/16/2010 11:10 AM, David F. Skoll wrote:
Hi,
I've written a basic introduction to Internet email. Some of you
may find it a useful teaching resource. Anyway, please let me
know what you think.
http://www.roaringpenguin.com/files/email-101_0.pdf
Well done. I immediately added it to
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Anyway, please let me know what you think.
On 3/16/2010 11:08 AM, Jason Bertoch wrote:
I found it well written and could certainly find a use for it with new
employees and support technicians. It may not be relevant to your target
audience, but I thought a useful addition to the DNS Transport section might be
to mention
Ben Kamen wrote:
I also wonder if it might be worth while mentioning that DNS can
source from a port other than 53. For those configured intricate
firewall policies, this could trip them up on the outbound side as
well.
Hmm, maybe. Actually, I didn't even want to mention DNS-related
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 17:43, Ben Kamen bka...@benjammin.net wrote:
Ooo, and maybe mention (although possibly not a '101' subject) the TXT
record used for things like SPF? (although maybe no longer relevant)
TXT records are still the main DNS record type used for SPF since so
few DNS hosts
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3 TCP/IP
Change to:
... the differences ... are negligible...
... distinguishing between versions except
Negligible
--- On Tue, 3/16/10, Ben Kamen bka...@benjammin.net wrote:
On 3/16/2010 11:08 AM, Jason Bertoch wrote:
Ooo, and maybe mention (although possibly not a '101'
subject) the TXT record used for things like SPF? (although
maybe no longer relevant)
I disagree with this. There was a glancing
D. Stussy wrote:
[A number of comments]
Thanks for your comments. I'll incorporate some of them.
4.1.2: MX - Simply call the order value preference. No one calls it cost.
Yeah, I know. But IMO, cost conveys the idea that the higher the number,
the less-preferred the MX host. preference is
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Page 9 example: You should not use local parts that have special
meanings. Replace devnull with something else.
What makes you think devnull has a special meaning? :-)
devnull = /dev/null = bit bucket = non-replyable
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