[TriLUG] AOL's new email policy

[Joseph Tate]

I think you're reading this wrong.  This only rejects if the sender's 
e-mail address contains an unresolvable domain.  At least that's what I 
think MAIL FROM means.  I'm not an SMTP expert though.

In any case, as with the telephone, e-mail is only reliable if there is 
some feedback.  If it's important, the sender will make a second effort 
to relay the message.  If it's not important, I don't want to read it 
anyway.  Now, I'm not trying to solicit business from this address, and 
therefore I care less if I don't know about an e-mail that I miss than I 
would on my business e-mail account (not hosted at home).

Joseph

Jon Carnes wrote:
> In the sendmail.mc file this option is referred to as:
>    FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl
> 
> If you change that to:
>    dnl FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl
> 
> then you will comment that "feature" out and Sendmail will now test all
> emails for resolvable hosts.  It will add the line: 
>    Kresolve host -a<OK> -T<TEMP> 
> to sendmail.cf.
> 
> Having said that... Don't do it!
> 
> A lot of folks have f**ked up MTA's that DO NOT report their domains
> correctly. If all you talk to are folks running Unix based Mail servers
> that are setup properly, then you will get all your mail, otherwise you
> will bounce a lot of legitimate mail from innocent folks who just happen
> to work for companies with incompetent Postmasters.
> 
> Use SpamAssassin.
> 
> Jon
> 
> On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 17:09, Turnpike Man wrote:
> 
>>I have been told for the longest time that editing the sendmail.cf file
>>directly is some kind of horrible sin, thus I avoid touching it.  (looks pretty
>>overwhelming to me anyway).  I was taught to edit sendmail.mc and apply via m4.
>>
>>laters,
>>David M.
>>
>>--- Joseph Tate <jtate at dragonstrider.com> wrote:
>>
>>>In my sendmail.cf I have:
>>># Resolve map (to check if a host exists in check_mail)
>>>Kresolve host -a<OK> -T<TEMP>
>>>
>>>It's been so long since I've set up the server that I don't remember how 
>>>that got there.  Maybe it is default.  Check to see if it's in your 
>>>sendmail.cf file.
>>>
>>>I can't seem to find anything in my .mc file that would translate to 
>>>that, but it is part of the /usr/share/sendmail-cf/cf/generic-linux.cf file.
>>>
>>>I just know that I get messages every so often in my logwatch that 
>>>"REJECT: domain of sender does not exist"
>>>
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> TriLUG mailing list
>     http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug
> TriLUG Organizational FAQ:
>     http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html