On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:37:11AM +0100, Tom Coady wrote:
> From: "Tony Nugent"
> > Their mail server(s) will not accept email if the email address you
> > are sending from is unresolvable in the dns.
>
> And rightly so. However I believe my address is resolvable otherwise I would
> receive no incoming mail, and the strange thing is that redhat accepted my
> mail for several weeks before they suddenly started rejecting stuff. I'm all
> in favour of anything that reduces spam, but I think a system that trashes
> false positives is in some ways worse. Sorry to keep having a go at redhat,
> but I believe that if anyone understands mail server configuration they
> should!
IMHO, they're doing the right thing. Your host has an MX record which
explains why you are receiving mail. However, it does not have an A
record, and mail servers should have one of them. Fix the DNS and
register the mail server.
.../Ed
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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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