On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 07:40:12AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Using a large mallet, Horace G. Friend III whacked out:
>
> > Aren't "legit mail" supposed to have matching forward and reverse DNS to
> > avoid having it thought of (or classified) as spam mail?
>
> Definitely not.
You are correct as per the SMTP protocol and the relevant RFCs. However
it's my understanding from a very recent thread on the FreeBSD-questions
list, that the SMTP 'fact-of-life' is that unless your IP/Doamin name
resolve both ways, an increasing number of servers will refuse your mail.
In the good old days, when the Internet was young, naive and not yet
penetrated by scum-bags, <RCPT> & <FROM> was all that was used and
needed.
So, can you expand on your "Definitely not". I may be missing something
here. later....
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-duke
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
