From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268321AbUHKXNq (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:13:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268308AbUHKXNq (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:13:46 -0400 Received: from louise.pinerecords.com ([213.168.176.16]:58088 "EHLO louise.pinerecords.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268321AbUHKXL2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:11:28 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 01:11:24 +0200 From: Tomas Szepe To: David Woodhouse Cc: Christoph Hellwig , kernel list Subject: Re: ipw2100 wireless driver Message-ID: <20040811231124.GC14073@louise.pinerecords.com> References: <20040811163333.GE10100@louise.pinerecords.com> <20040811175105.A30188@infradead.org> <20040811170208.GG10100@louise.pinerecords.com> <20040811181142.A30309@infradead.org> <20040811172222.GI10100@louise.pinerecords.com> <20040811184148.A30660@infradead.org> <20040811175109.GJ10100@louise.pinerecords.com> <1092264200.1438.4347.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> <20040811225612.GB14073@louise.pinerecords.com> <1092265608.1438.4364.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1092265608.1438.4364.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Aug-12 2004, Thu, 00:06 +0100 David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 00:56 +0200, Tomas Szepe wrote: > > Ok, thanks for the warning. Is there any reason why you should > > be trying to look up postmaster@ from the sender domain upon > > RCPT TO? > > Part of standard verification of sender addresses. You're being offered > an email.... if you can't send a bounce to the address it claims to come > from, or if you can't send a mail to postmaster at the same domain, then > the chances that the mail you're being offered is a fake are high enough > to warrant rejecting it. Ok, I see, but wouldn't an "and" where you write "or" make more sense? :) Anyway, I screwed up in the aliases vs. virtusertable department again. -- Tomas Szepe