From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 17 16:04:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA28979 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 16:04:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from darla.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (Modem1106.internet.dk [194.255.12.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA28919 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 23:04:13 GMT (envelope-from root@darla.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by darla.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA01503; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 01:03:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root@darla.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk) Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 01:03:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Leif Neland To: Greg Lehey cc: Jeff & Hillary Jones , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: domain resolve for email In-Reply-To: <19980414164844.I1870@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tue, 14 April 1998 at 1:38:07 -0500, Jeff & Hillary Jones wrote: > > another newbie question... > > > > I would like to know how to make it so my email accounts > > do not get mail from unresolveable hosts just like > > this list. > > > > I'm no longer sure that this is a good idea. Over the last couple of > days I have set up a mailing list, and I find that a large number of > legitimate users have transient problems in their reverse lookup (not > their fault, nor of anybody in their domain). The result is that mail > to or from them bounces. I've taken mine out as a result. > Well, don't bounce the mail with a 500-code, use a 400-code making the sender retry later. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message