28 Jun
2008
28 Jun
'08
1:27 p.m.
Phil Regnauld wrote:
Requirement ? What requirement ? There's no requirement for reverse DNS for email in any RFC.
As a practical matter, I've found that sending out email from a host without rDNS doesn't work: too many sites bounce the mail. It will not come as news to anyone on this list that the world of SMTP is hardly well-defined or well-regulated in practice. Like Rowlf the dog, we can't live with it, we can't live without it, but we're stuck until something better comes along: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vvV9LjBsNw Jim Shankland