martin f krafft writes ("Re: RFC 2?821 and CNAMEs"):
> Of course I can ensure that, and that's what I had a while ago: for
> each of my road-warriors (rw.madduck.net; 19 of them; no, not all
> laptops; long story), I had a separate pair of MX RRs.
>
> I sough
also sprach Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.10.10.1059 +0100]:
> In particular, I have seen MTAs which would (taking your situation as
> a concrete example, and when relaying mail eg as a smarthost), after
> receiving a mail with
>RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> would look lapse.madduck.net
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I can't believe DNS (or SMTP for that matter) hasn't moved along in
> decades... at least not since people started to understand that data
> redundancy (not caching!) is a bad thing.
Yeah, both DNS and SMTP basically froze in stone a while back, and e
also sprach Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.10.10.0024 +0100]:
> The only thing RFC 821 cares about is what hostnames you use in
> MAIL FROM and RCPT TO. If you can ensure that your mail setup
> uses the canonical name rather than the alias in the RHS of
> addresses in MAIL FROM, that will
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> also sprach Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.10.09.2243 +0100]:
>> Note, though, that STD-10 is a Standard whereas RFC 2821 is still
>> only a Proposed Standard. IIRC, formally the obsolete only fully
>> applies once RFC 2821 reaches the same le
also sprach Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.10.09.2243 +0100]:
> Note, though, that STD-10 is a Standard whereas RFC 2821 is still
> only a Proposed Standard. IIRC, formally the obsolete only fully
> applies once RFC 2821 reaches the same level in the standards
> process.
Does that mean I
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> RFC 2821 obsoletes STD-10, and says:
> 3.6 Domains
>Only resolvable, fully-qualified, domain names (FQDNs) are permitted
>when domain names are used in SMTP. In other words, names that can
>be resolved to MX RRs or A RRs (as discussed in
Thanks, Ian, for your reply. I don't quite agree with it though.
also sprach Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.10.09.2102 +0100]:
> The prevailing IETF standard for mail transmission over the Internet
> is STD-10 (RFC821), which says:
RFC 2821 obsoletes STD-10, and says:
3.6 Domains
Only
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