Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 12:42:24 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Tony Kimball <Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (over)zealous mail bouncing Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970724123831.9603A-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199707241601.LAA03086@compound.east.sun.com>
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On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Tony Kimball wrote: > I beg to differ. Most machines which may validly receive email do *not* > have valid hostnames. Using the majority-minority rule, *you* lose. > That's reality. Maybe I missed something here, but there is a big difference between having a valid name for the posting machine and having a valid name in the return address. Rejecting mail for the latter case seems perfectly acceptable to me. Bouncing because of the former is a bit more problematic. -john
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