Re: [Exim] Domain literals: weighing up the arguments

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Autor: David Woodhouse
Datum:  
To: Russell King
CC: Tim Jackson, exim-users
Betreff: Re: [Exim] Domain literals: weighing up the arguments
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 21:25 +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:09:09AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > You missed a bit:
> >
> >    SMTP systems are expected to make every reasonable effort to accept
> >    mail directed to Postmaster from any other system on the Internet.

>
> However, the above quoted paragraph does not say "you must accept
> postmaster@[ipliteral]";


True. It doesn't say you must.

However, the modicum of effort it takes to accept postmaster@[]
addresses with Exim (modulo IPv6 bugs) cannot possibly be interpreted as
outwith the description 'every reasonable effort'.

>From that I infer that I'm expected to do it. Not that I MUST do it, or

even that I SHOULD; just that it makes sense and seems to have been the
intention.

--
dwmw2