Re: Mailserver requirements

[Arnold Nipper <arnold () nipper de>]

On 05.04.2004 23:42 Daniel Roesen wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 11:32:08PM +0200, Arnold Nipper wrote:
>
> > >     I am surprised you don't have problems sending to AOL as well.
> > > They don't accept email from servers that do not have reverse addresses.
> > > I don't accept email from severs without reverse addressing.         
> >
> > of course this server does have a reverse mapping. But this reverse
> > mapped doamin does not have an MX record.
>
>
> Does it have an A RR?

It also does have an A RR. And the forward mapping does also match the
IP address.

> Anyway... it's a heuristic which definately does give false positives.
> The only requirement is that IF a domain/host accepts mail there MUST be
> a postmaster@ address.

In this case the host *sends* mail ...



Arnold