On Tue, 17 May 2005, Bill Taroli wrote: > Matt Fretwell wrote: > >>IMO, a sending MTA should never have its smtp port closed unless > >>it is an end-user. > >> > >> > > > > Once again, a sending server does not have to be a MX. Something within > >that domain should be listening on port 25, but not always the machine > >which is connecting to yours. Look at the hostname of my machine in the > >headers. You will see it has rDNS and fDNS, but is not a MX for the > >domain. > > > > I think that was a typo, since the criteria he gave say "the domain has > an MX that..." and not "the MTA is an MX that..." Basically, just edit > "sending MTA" to "MX for the sender's domain" and I think we're good. :-) >
Thank you for the correction -- has an MX, not necessarily /is/ an MX. -Eric _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
