RRs for mail server

Jukka Salmi jukka-usenet at 2003.salmi.ch
Wed Sep 3 15:20:12 UTC 2003


On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 14:33:00 GMT, Barry Margolin wrote:
[...]
> There's no requirement that the name in the HELO command match the name in
> the PTR record.  They often don't match when the mail server is multi-homed
> and therefore has multiple addresses, or as in cases like yours where the
> server simply has multiple names.
> 
> However, there are some sites that do this type of check anyway, as a form
> of spam blocking.  So if you can make them consistent, it's not a bad idea.
[...]

Fine, thanks for the information!

Jukka

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