Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

Correction:

        They need to pull themselves out of the loop on this and allow DNS
to work as intended.

Owen


--On Saturday, September 20, 2003 3:06 PM -0500 "Eric A. Hall" 
<ehall () ehsco com> wrote:

> on 9/20/2003 1:01 PM Matt Larson wrote:
>
> > We are interested in feedback on the best way within the SMTP protocol
> > to definitively reject mail at these servers.
>
> You need to:
>
>  1) fatally reject mail for domains that are not delegated with 5xx
>
>  -and-
>
>  2) softly reject mail for domains that are delegated with 4xx so
>     the messages are requeed and may get to an authorized server on
>     the next run
>
> Used to be able to use DNS for this.
>
> --
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