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Re: questionable email filtering policies?


From: Florian Weimer <fweimer () bfk de>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:39:15 +0000

* Chris Hills:

On the topic of mail rejection I have come across a few sites that
reject mail, even to postmaster@, from domains that have one or more
ipv6-only MX records listed (i.e. a domain name with AAAA but no A
record(s)). The common factor seems to be mimedefang.

Plain sendmail has got a similar issue, especially if the best MX is
IPv6-only.  I learnt that the hard way---and it speaks for the quality
of IPv6 testing that the "IPv6 considerations for SMTP" RFC (forgot
its number) doesn't even come close to mentioning this issue,
preferring to talk about bizarre reachability concerns. 8-P

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