Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 10:23:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com> To: Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (over)zealous mail bouncing Message-ID: <199707241723.KAA11931@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>
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Tony Kimball <Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM> writes: > I beg to differ. Most machines which may validly receive email do *not* > have valid hostnames. Using the majority-minority rule, *you* lose. > That's reality. You've missed the point. You need to put a valid return address in the envelope sender, or else (among other things) you'll never get bounced mail back: mailers won't know how to return mail to you if there's a delivery problem. It's not hard, and it has nothing to do with dynamic IP addressing, or with whether your machine has a valid hostname. Do people send you email at all? What address do they use? Use that address as the envelope sender. Jim Shankland Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc.
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