--On October 13, 2006 10:46:34 PM -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:33:12 CDT, Paul Schmehl said: (Digging out from a long week of other stuff, sorry for the late response)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"mta that aren't registered in the DNS as a "legal" MX" - tell me Paul, how does that work with any site that's big enough that they run split inbound MX and outbound servers?
Send me an email at [EMAIL PROTECTED], and I'll tell you.I'm not sure what you mean by "split inbound and outbound", but any outbound MX host *should* be listed in DNS. You only list one - smtp.vt.edu. 192.82.162.213 is reversible, so it would get points for being honest about its IP/hostname, but it would lose points for not being listed in DNS as an MX. The overall score would determine if the mail was rejected, but I doubt that it would be.
Easy enough to tell. Send me mail. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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