Re: [Exim] Require A records for host names in HELOs?

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Author: Juha Saarinen
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To: Edgar Lovecraft
CC: exim
Subject: Re: [Exim] Require A records for host names in HELOs?
Edgar Lovecraft wrote:

> What are you trying to hide by not giving information that is already in
> your message headers (if you really did send this email the same as you
> did to Greg).


Nothing at all. The DNS is public information.


> Which host did Greg reject?? vim2.saarinen.org does not even have a CNAME
> record, host record, etc, so it will never resolve. Very bad thing
> for a 'valid' email server.


That's funny. Poor vim2 had a CNAME before, but I gave him an A record
instead:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
vim2.saarinen.org.      21h22m38s IN A  203.79.82.189



> And almost all of those that use only host and not host.domain should be
> rejected as they are not valid email servers. And Greg is not the only
> one that requires host information to valid in many different ways.


Up to him. Who cares? I don't.

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Juha