On 20/11/15 13:10, Eliot Lear wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > Just on this point... > > On 11/20/15 1:53 PM, Stephen Farrell wrote: >> - I think the answer is "no," but I'll ask anyway:-) Many mail >> service providers use names like mail.example.com, smtp.example.com, >> imap.example.com etc. Would it be useful for this document to >> encourge the use of specific hostname parts for specific functions? >> (Hostname part is probably the wron term, I mean the smtp, imap, >> mail parts of those names) >> >> > > I agree with you that the answer is "no". I don't think we want to > create some sort of reserved word list within the domain name itself. > But why do you ask? Do you perceive such a need?
I wasn't thinking of a reserved word list, but more like a recommendation to mail service deployments, CAs and MUAs to say please do use e.g. smtp.example.com for submission (and not mail.example.com) and to please use imap.example.com etc. The possible benefit would I think be an increase in the success rate when MUAs guess those names starting from a mail address, for cases where the SRV thing hasn't been done. But, I still think the answer is no;-) S. > > Eliot > > > > _______________________________________________ > Uta mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/uta >
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