On 05/12/2011 06:22 AM, Faris Raouf wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I've been happily using the DENIED_SENDER_NO_MX option for years with no
> problems.
>
> Yesterday, however, 24 hours after finally upgrading to 4.2.0 from a
> previous 4.x version (sorry -- not sure which - possibly 4.0.6), I noticed
> an oddity in my logs (redacted to protect the innocent).
>
> Basically an email from [email protected]   to
> [email protected]  was DENIED_SENDER_NO_MX (sending IP's rDNS was
> mail.sending-domain.com)
>
> sending-domain.com DOES have an MX record but mail.sending-domain.com does
> not.
>
> I had always thought that the MX lookup applies to sending-domain.com and
> not to the rDNS of the sending IP. My logic is that there are legitimate
> reasons why the rDNS on a sending IP might not have an MX record, but no
> really good reason why the actual domain in the From line in the envelope
> would not have an MX record.
>
> So....is this some sort of a one-off DNS failure, a misunderstanding on my
> part, a bug or none of the above?
>
> While I'm here, and because I've not posted for years in this group, my
> sincere thanks go to Sam for Spamdyke which has to be the most essential
> add-on for qmail in existence. It is people like you to tip the balance of
> the Internet from lawless and scary to wonderful and magic.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Faris.

This is a known bug (2 actually):
http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/private/spamdyke-users/2011q1/003111.html

It will be fixed in the next release, which we're hoping to see very soon.

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'

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