Mail PTR Records

[Glenn Steen]

On 04/03/2008, Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/03/2008, Matt Kettler <mkettler at evi-inc.com> wrote:
>  > Nathan Olson wrote:
>  >  > It's not RFC-compliant.
>  >
>  >
>  > Please point out the RFC and section it violates.
>  >
>  >  AFAIK, there's no section that prohibits refusing mail due to lack of PTR
>  >  records for the IP address.
>
> It might be that Nathan interpretes the "address verification" bit as
>  doing any form of DNS.... which actually might be the "spirit" of all
>  that.... Hm.... Need sleep and time to think on this:-)
>
Ah, I see you all thought this through while I was out carousing in
Copenhagen...

>
>  >  I've been proved wrong before, but I'm extraordinarily skeptical that there's
>  >  any such restrictions in the RFCs.. I can find no mention of such a restriction
>  >  in RFC 821, 2821 or 1123.
>
> :-) You're a big man, Matt.
At some point in time, I think most people (like us:-) have had a ....
humbling.... "RFC incident":)

Cheers
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