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Re: [OT] HELO/rDNS Checking Policy (was: Re: Acceptance of domain literals)
From: Alex van den Bogaerdt (alex
ergens.op.het.net)
Date: Sat Jan 03 2004 - 10:59:37 CST
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On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 11:34:55AM -0500, Jim Seymour wrote:
> > > He didn't explicitly refuse to accept your response. His MTA config
> > > refused to accept email from a server whose HELO violates RFC 1123.
> > > Admittedly, that RFC says one MAY verify, but MUST not reject on a
> > > failure, so Mr. Woods is, technically speaking, violating the RFCs
> > > worse than you are.
> I stand by my original comments. If your HELO does not match your
> rDNS, you are in violation of RFC 1123.
I never said this wasn't true. What I did say is that RFC 1123 talks
about rejecting in certain circumstances.
RFC 1123 does not forbid you to reject a message. RFC 1123 only forbids
to reject a message for no other reason than the correctly formed HELO
parameter not matching the connecting IP address.
This is what RFC1123 discusses:
hostname -> resolved_IP
resolved_IP -> hostname
resolved_IP != connected_IP
resolved_IP != connected_IP ? MUST NOT reject
Cannot resolve hostname into IP ? RFC1123 does not forbid to reject
Cannot resolve IP into hostname ? Dito
cheers,
Alex
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