[Mimedefang] Reject without PTR record

[David F. Skoll]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 dimon at intellinetinc.com wrote:

> Quoting Joseph Brennan <brennan at columbia.edu>:

> > Sendmail temp fails that now.

> I'm sure it rejects it by default (at least the one installed from FreeBSD
> ports).

It depends on why the lookup fails.  If the reverse lookup fails because
it couldn't reach a server, Sendmail tempfails it.  If a negative answer
(NXDOMAIN) comes back, it rejects it.

Regards,

David.