On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Paul Walsh wrote:
> Is there an RFC which states that MTAs MUST/Should have a reverse-DNS entry?
Not that I know of.
> As you know, there are some ISPs/MTAs out there that don't have reverse
> entries and cause problems for us mail admins who have to try and explain to
> our users that it's not our problem but that of the remote system being
> badly registered.
>
> Would it be worth adding a section to the documentation listing all the
> relevant RFCs and what they refer to (i.e. delivery/lookup etc)?
There are quite a lot if you include all the MIME and AUTH stuff, and
I'm not even sure I know about them all myself! In theory, the two new
ones should come out soon, but they are grinding extremely slowly.
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