[ On Friday, June 17, 2005 at 05:32:12 (+0100), Mark Smith wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: [exim] a large number of domains fronted by Exim are refusingbounces...
>
> I would dearly love to refuse mail from any host that ignores the protocols,
> but there are so many large companies out there with misconfigured servers
> that our customers would have a fit when they couldn't get their
> email.
A generic "ignores the protocols" is one thing....
"ignoring a most critical key aspect of the core protocol" is quite another.
Anyone not blocking sender addresses with domains listed in
dsn.rfc-ignorant.org really should consider doing so.
Idiots listed in postmaster.rfc-ignorant.org should be blocked too of
course.
If you don't wake people up they'll never learn what's wrong.
> Why can't these customers just use the email service that comes with their
> hosting packages?
because as I said their hosting packages don't seem to offer e-mail
_relay_ services (i.e. they don't seem to offer either SMTP/SSL or
SUBMIT/STARTTLS).
They do get inbound e-mail to their domains through their hosting
services of course, but that's the problem -- their outbound mail goes
out through any number of different ISPs, and they _never_ see any
bounces.
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Greg A. Woods
Planix, Inc.
<woods@???> +1 416 489-5852 x122 http://www.planix.com/
