On Tue, 2022-08-23 at 12:11 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2022-08-18 19:40:33 +0100, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> > - if the reverse lookup fails, or the domain it retrieved does not
> > match the one in the From address, send a bare 550 REJECT because
> > the failed
> > reverse lookup implies the sending domain is a forgery. 
> 
> It doesn't. There are IPs that host several domains, e.g. in case
> of shared web hosting. For instance, I have 2 domains vinc17.net
> and vinc17.org, and both are handled by the same machine, thus
> with a single IP address. So, necessarily, the reverse lookup will
> not match for one of these domains.
> 
Fair enough: I did say that some of this was off the top pf my head at
the end of a longish day.

Would doing the lookup trick on the URL in the Message-ID header be any
more reliable?

Martin

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