From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 17 16:44:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA11849 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 16:44:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [209.150.92.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA11790 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 23:44:01 GMT (envelope-from shawn@luke.cpl.net) Received: from localhost (shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA09081; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 16:40:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 16:40:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Shawn Ramsey To: Leif Neland cc: Jeff & Hillary Jones , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: domain resolve for email In-Reply-To: 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 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. How bout clueless ISP who either do not how, or won't, configure reverse DNS? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message