[Mimedefang] Potential for Business mail servers tonot havereverse DNS

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Sun Sep 24 12:08:16 EDT 2006


On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 23:58, John Rudd wrote:
> >
> > A SHOULD is _never_ a requirement.
> The section of RFC 1912 that I quoted directly contradicts you.  It 
> lists a should, and outlines that the consequence for deviating from the 
> should may be denial of service.  Therefore, it specifically states that 
> a should _may_be_ a requirement for service.  Period.

It is saying that there are circumstances other than RFC
requirement compliance that can cause interoperability
problems - like sites that add their own arbitrary
requirements.  That's just a realistic observation. You
can't use that to say any RFC justifies these additional
requirements even though the SHOULDs give best practices
to work around them. 

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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