Re: [exim] Unable to send email from email clients

2009/6/7 Martin A. Brooks <martin@???>:
> On 07/06/2009 16:04, W B Hacker wrote:
>> as a public-facing MTA really, really does need  to have a fixed-IP
>> with a valid PTR RR
>
>
> It doesn't matter how many times you say this, it's simply not true.  No
> RFC requires this.   This is you saying "I think a public-facing MTA
> really, really does need  to have a fixed-IP with a valid PTR RR".
> Please express such things as opinions, and not as universally accepted
> facts or technical requirements, which is what they, however
> unintentionally, come across as.
>
> And, yes, I know I'll get my usual bounce from your mail server when it
> throws away yet another perfectly legitimate non-spam email, because I
> dare to send email from my home ADSL connection, starting the email in
> RFC1918 space, with no matching reverse DNS.

As I'm sure you've also found, there's enough of the internet that
share's Bill's view to make it a distinct disadvantage to the
deliverability of your mail to do this. Your call, of course, but the
genie's out of the bottle on this one.

Peter
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