On 12/03/02 17:49 +0800, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
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> Seems like an eminently sensible move to me.  Sourceforge has something which
> should worry Indian users a LOT more ... smtp callbacks.
Yeah, implying that VSNL will be unusable for posting to LI* :).
Oh well, I'll just have to ssh in and work.

> Check the sending domain.  Say vsnl.com
> 
> Telnet back to the MX records of vsnl.com
> 
> If (postmaster exists - or at least, doesn't bounce with a 550)
> then (accept mail and deliver it)
> else (bounce it with a note to the effect that sourceforge doesn't accept
> mail from domains too stupid to have a postmaster)
> 
> I owe Marc Merlin, the sourceforge postmaster, a beer for this.  And I owe a
> beer or two to whoever thought of adding vsnl's dialup blocks to the DUL.
And I have a knife in the guts of the VSNL marketing department for
whoever thought of making SMTP FROM compulsory as
*.vsnl.(com|net|net.in)

Not nice at all.

Devdas Bhagat

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