[ On Wednesday, February 4, 2004 at 17:19:22 (-0800), Fred Viles wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [Exim] Require A records for host names in HELOs? {Warning: possible flame war inducing content}
>
> Masses of rejections, not bounces. Indeed. If you had made it past
> that test, the next test insists that the connecting IP have a PTR
> record with a name matching the HELO name
That's not true at all.
What I require is that IFF you have reverse DNS then it must be correct
and complete, else I may believe you're spoofing your hostname.
Broken reverse DNS is worse than no reverse DNS at all.
Use the latest version of host with '-v -A' to verify your hostnames and
reverse DNS are orthogonal and complete.
> which is also contrary to
> RFC.
Actually it's required by the RFCs and BCPs.
> IIRC, mail to postmaster is also refused on the same basis.
Of course -- this is a "lame client" reject, not a recipient address
reject.
> I'm of the opinion that mail administrators are entitled to implement
> whatever policy they like for their own domains. Greg apparently has
> very strong beliefs about what constitutes proper DNS, and isn't
> interested in receiving email from anyone who doesn't conform to
> them. That's his perogative.
On that we agree 100%! :-)
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