2009/6/7 Martin A. Brooks <[email protected]>: > On 07/06/2009 16:04, W B Hacker wrote: >> as a public-facing MTA really, really does need to have a fixed-IP >> with a valid PTR RR > > > It doesn't matter how many times you say this, it's simply not true. No > RFC requires this. This is you saying "I think a public-facing MTA > really, really does need to have a fixed-IP with a valid PTR RR". > Please express such things as opinions, and not as universally accepted > facts or technical requirements, which is what they, however > unintentionally, come across as. > > And, yes, I know I'll get my usual bounce from your mail server when it > throws away yet another perfectly legitimate non-spam email, because I > dare to send email from my home ADSL connection, starting the email in > RFC1918 space, with no matching reverse DNS.
As I'm sure you've also found, there's enough of the internet that share's Bill's view to make it a distinct disadvantage to the deliverability of your mail to do this. Your call, of course, but the genie's out of the bottle on this one. Peter -- Peter Bowyer Email: [email protected] Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/peeebeee -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
