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Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
From: Jim Shankland <nanog () shankland org>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:27:15 -0700
Phil Regnauld wrote:
Requirement ? What requirement ? There's no requirement for reverse DNS for email in any RFC.
As a practical matter, I've found that sending out email from a host without rDNS doesn't work: too many sites bounce the mail. It will not come as news to anyone on this list that the world of SMTP is hardly well-defined or well-regulated in practice. Like Rowlf the dog, we can't live with it, we can't live without it, but we're stuck until something better comes along: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vvV9LjBsNw Jim Shankland
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- Re: Mail Server best practices - was: Pandora's Box of new TLDs, (continued)
- Re: Mail Server best practices - was: Pandora's Box of new TLDs Chris Owen (Jun 28)
- Re: Mail Server best practices - was: Pandora's Box of new TLDs Randy Bush (Jun 28)
- Re: Mail Server best practices - was: Pandora's Box of new TLDs John Levine (Jun 28)
- Re: Mail Server best practices - was: Pandora's Box of new TLDs John Peach (Jun 29)
- Re: Mail Server best practices - was: Pandora's Box of new TLDs Stephane Bortzmeyer (Jun 29)
- RE: Mail Server best practices - was: Pandora's Box of new TLDs Frank Bulk - iNAME (Jun 29)
- Re: Mail Server best practices - was: Pandora's Box of new TLDs 'Stephane Bortzmeyer' (Jun 29)
- Re: Mail Server best practices - was: Pandora's Box of new TLDs Roland Perry (Jun 30)
- Re: Mail Server best practices - was: Pandora's Box of new TLDs Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Jun 29)
- Re: Mail Server best practices - was: Pandora's Box of new TLDs Rich Kulawiec (Jun 29)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Jim Shankland (Jun 28)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Rich Kulawiec (Jun 28)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Matthew Petach (Jun 28)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Rich Kulawiec (Jun 28)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Marshall Eubanks (Jun 28)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Tony Finch (Jun 27)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Raoul Bhatia [IPAX] (Jun 28)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs David Conrad (Jun 28)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Stephane Bortzmeyer (Jun 29)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Marshall Eubanks (Jun 29)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET (Jun 29)