From: Gregory Maxwell <greg@linuxpower.cx>
To: God <atm@sdk.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: ECN: Volunteers needed
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 15:03:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010509150313.C13226@xi.linuxpower.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010509102509.B13226@xi.linuxpower.cx> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105091301070.23642-100000@scotch.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105091301070.23642-100000@scotch.homeip.net>; from atm@sdk.ca on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 01:08:31PM -0400
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 01:08:31PM -0400, God wrote:
> On Wed, 9 May 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>
> > 2) They certainly are. Every once in a while they go through a period of
> > silently dropping all email coming from hosts that don't have PTRs.
> > This would be no worse.
>
> ACK .... Which do you mean? :
>
> -Hosts that don't have valid PTRs (which would be no PTR at all -- Not
> deliverable, but not because AOL said so)
>
> -Hosts that don't have valid PTRs, but DO have at least one valid MX
> (Forward and reverse)
>
> -Same as above, but said hosts MX's forward and/or reverse don't match
>
> etc etc .... I ask this simply because I DO know of users who have
> complained their E-Mail to/from an AOL customer, didn't get there. I've
> always assumed .. well ... AOL user .. no comment :)
AFIK, mail which contains Path with host names which don't pass a two-way
check (forward, reverse the forward) AOL drops. Not always though, MX
records are irrelevantly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-09 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-09 2:31 ECN: Volunteers needed jamal
2001-05-09 2:41 ` David S. Miller
2001-05-09 2:45 ` jamal
2001-05-09 2:48 ` jamal
2001-05-09 2:52 ` Billy Harvey
2001-05-09 11:44 ` Matthew Geier
2001-05-09 13:34 ` Pekka Savola
2001-05-09 16:58 ` God
2001-05-09 17:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-10 12:55 ` Holger Lubitz
2001-05-11 17:17 ` David Ford
2001-05-10 22:23 ` Michel Eyckmans (MCE)
2001-05-09 13:38 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-05-09 14:10 ` Horst von Brand
2001-05-09 14:25 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-05-09 17:08 ` God
2001-05-09 19:03 ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2001-05-09 19:23 ` ECN: Volunteers needed :: AOL ::: Spam filter God
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2001-05-09 3:16 ECN: Volunteers needed Sally Floyd
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