Its purpose is to reject *all* mail from bogus MTAs - dialups, misconifigured servers, MTAs that aren't registered in the domains' DNS as a "legal" MX, MTAs that don't reverse properly, etc., etc. If the email is forged in any way, it will never make it to DATA.That's great, except it makes the internet more expensive for the little guy. If you're trying to run a non-spamming personal mailserver off of a consumer DSL or cable line, you can get screwed by others' policies like this because you may not have control over your PTR records or how your ISP lists you as a non-MTA with other organizations. Sure, argue that the little guy should just shell out for a better line, but if he could, he wouldn't be the little guy.
It wouldn't hurt to actually read how it works before criticizing it.Policyd-weight (the name implies what it does) provides a weighted score to each "bad" thing an MTA does. The *cumulative* score is what matters. It also *subtracts* points for good things that an MTA does. So, the situation you describe should not be a problem.
If you want to test that, send a test message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and see if it gets rejected. If it does, look at the headers to see what it did.
Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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