From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jul 1 19:10:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from magicnet.magicnet.net (magicnet.magicnet.net [204.96.116.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BBC915615 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 19:10:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@bilver.magicnet.net) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by magicnet.magicnet.net (8.8.6/8.8.8) with UUCP id WAA14727 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 22:08:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.magicnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id VAA47051 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 21:45:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Vermillion Message-Id: <199907020145.VAA47051@bilver.magicnet.net> Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.9.x check_mail anti-spam rule broken? In-Reply-To: <377B977B.644C021D@mci.com> from Jason Thomson at "Jul 1, 1999 5:29:47 pm" To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 21:44:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jason Thomson recently said: > I know. I wasn't suggesting that they were particularly competent. > But they are one of many organisations that don't have A records > for their domain name. The question I was really asking was: > Is it necessary to have A records for a domain name in order to > have EMail messages accepted by Sendmail 8.9.x for senders from > that domain? > As far as I was aware, it shouldn't be necessary to have an A > record for a domain name, in order to send mail to that domain. Well a question then. Since an MX record points to a mail host name, how can you find the IP of that name with no A (A stands for address). ? Bill -- bv@wjv.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message