From: Tom Diehl (no email)
Date: Wed May 01 2002 - 11:37:35 EDT
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Adam Levin wrote:
>
> I'm curious how many of you are using restrictions that deal with RFC
> issues. Specifically, we're running into a problem because
> reject_non_fqdn_hostname is occasionally (but rarely -- 2 out of 63
> yesterday) preventing valid email from large providers who have
> misconfigured their mail servers somehow. I'm not sure why their mail
> software isn't sending FQDN in the HELO, but it's not. I've pointed
> emphatically at RFC 2821 regarding this requirement, but to no avail. It
> looks like the management are going to require that I remove that
> restriction. Is anyone else using it? One argument the brass have used
> against me is that these companies (that are having their mail to us
> rejected) have not had errors from *anyone else* -- just us.
I use it here and 99% of the mail that bounces because of it is spam.
How do your suits know they are not getting errors from anyone else?
I suspect that they just want their mail and do not care about the
impact it has on other people or things.
Who is the large provider. I have not had any problems accepting mail from
"a large provider" Even AOL and MSN for all of their problems use fqdn
in the HELO on THEIR servers. Are you sure that the server in question is
really a server owned by the large provider and not run by some spammer
trying to look like said large provider?
-- .............Tom "Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software." -- Bill Gates 1976 We are still waiting .... - To unsubscribe, send mail to with content (not subject): unsubscribe postfix-users
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