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SubjectRe: ORBZ is dead, don't use it...
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 01:05:39PM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Matti Aarnio wrote:
....
> > I see both DNS lookup timeouts, and SERVFAIL returns.
> > In my books neither should lead to rejection, but
> > a) others may have better wisdom that I have,
> > b) some popular software are known to be unable to
> > separate any sort of temporary failures (timeouts
> > at DNS lookup) from real things (actual DNS-RBL)
>
> Only positive lookups should lead to rejection, IMHO. Timeouts & Co.
> should default to acception.

Teach sendmail to differentiate the cases...
(and qmail, and ...)

> - Davide

/Matti Aarnio
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