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From: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com>
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Subject: Re: (over)zealous mail bouncing
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Tony Kimball <Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM> writes:

> 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.  

You've missed the point.  You need to put a valid return address
in the envelope sender, or else (among other things) you'll never
get bounced mail back:  mailers won't know how to return mail to
you if there's a delivery problem.  It's not hard, and it has nothing
to do with dynamic IP addressing, or with whether your machine has
a valid hostname.  Do people send you email at all?  What address do
they use?  Use that address as the envelope sender.

Jim Shankland
Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc.