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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 23:18:51 +0200
From: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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Subject: Re: ORBZ is dead, don't use it...
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On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 01:05:39PM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Matti Aarnio wrote:
....
> >   I see both DNS lookup timeouts, and SERVFAIL returns.
> >   In my books neither should lead to rejection, but
> >   a) others may have better wisdom that I have,
> >   b) some popular software are known to be unable to
> >      separate any sort of temporary failures (timeouts
> >      at DNS lookup) from real things (actual DNS-RBL)
> 
> Only positive lookups should lead to rejection, IMHO. Timeouts & Co.
> should default to acception.

  Teach sendmail to differentiate the cases...
  (and qmail, and ...)

> - Davide

/Matti Aarnio
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