Re: smtp redirection

[Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>]

On Tue, 10 May 2005 15:57:17 EDT, Valdis Kletnieks said:
> It's been *many* moons since anything except ratware failed to do MX handling
> in some reasonable manner.  I mean, come *ON*, MX records were defined in RFC973.

On Tue, 10 May 2005 15:57:02 EDT, Geoff said:
> You will experience a few external sites that will have trouble sending
> to you. These will all be badly configured MS Exchange servers that
> can't cope with MX records. They'll want to be able to connect to the
> destination IP SMTP port directly. When you speak with their mail admin,
> you'll find they have no concept of what an MX record is. RTFM is the
> correct advice to them.

I stand by my categorization of "nothing except ratware".  If MS Exchange
*ever* shipped with MX turned off by default, *or* if it made it trivial
for an unclued admin to disable it, it's broken ratware even if it *is* in
widespread use.

It's really gotten to the point where we need to say "Your clue must be
this tall to ride the Internet".  I'd almost recommend *against* suggesting
that they RTFM to figure out how to fix *this* problem, because once they
do, they will be sending you all *sorts* of broken and misconfigured stuff.
All that getting their system working will buy you is a a continuing
maintenance headache.

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