Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 May 2001 15:03:13 -0400 | From | Gregory Maxwell <> | Subject | Re: ECN: Volunteers needed |
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On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 01:08:31PM -0400, God wrote: > On Wed, 9 May 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > > 2) They certainly are. Every once in a while they go through a period of > > silently dropping all email coming from hosts that don't have PTRs. > > This would be no worse. > > ACK .... Which do you mean? : > > -Hosts that don't have valid PTRs (which would be no PTR at all -- Not > deliverable, but not because AOL said so) > > -Hosts that don't have valid PTRs, but DO have at least one valid MX > (Forward and reverse) > > -Same as above, but said hosts MX's forward and/or reverse don't match > > etc etc .... I ask this simply because I DO know of users who have > complained their E-Mail to/from an AOL customer, didn't get there. I've > always assumed .. well ... AOL user .. no comment :)
AFIK, mail which contains Path with host names which don't pass a two-way check (forward, reverse the forward) AOL drops. Not always though, MX records are irrelevantly. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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