Will RMK (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) please fix his email setup otherwise I

can't send serial/tty/arm stuff to him.
"<<< 550 You have no reverse DNS; please try again when you have resolved

that error 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable"
Difficult to tell what you've got wrong but the delivering host does have

a reverse DNS, and the mail address is an MX so if you are trying to turn

that into a reverse A record you have some problems with your scripts.
Alan

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Well, outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu is NXDOMAIN.
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:20:42 +0300
I've yet to see a specification which requires this.
Alan

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* Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:39:34 +0100
This is very brutal way of doing things, that somebody forced to do

against unwilling e-mails. I have it enabled in exim also as an

experiment (thus, see reply-to/mail-follow-up). It doesn't stop, but

reduces spam.
Especially this is wrong WRT mailing list. That's why i've proposed
* trivial checking for `in-reply-to/references' (SHOULD in rfc2822)

  (see, wizard -- no hands!)
* starting new threads will require valid ticket-requesting message

  first (as part of patch bomb of something like that, for instance).
My experiments show, that spam doesn't have any hint of mail header

magic, only stupid ms outlook stuff. Thus i don't think that idea is

very insecure and all that kind of things. Conversely developers like

Alan will not spend time and energy arguing about `modern ways of

dealing with reality' :)
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RFC1912 is admittedly "Informational" status. However, it *does* say:
2.1 Inconsistent, Missing, or Bad Data
   Every Internet-reachable host should have a name.  The consequences

   of this are becoming more and more obvious.  Many services available

   on the Internet will not talk to you if you aren't correctly

   registered in the DNS.
   Make sure your PTR and A records match.  For every IP address, there

   should be a matching PTR record in the in-addr.arpa domain.  If a

   host is multi-homed, (more than one IP address) make sure that all IP

   addresses have a corresponding PTR record (not just the first one).

   Failure to have matching PTR and A records can cause loss of Internet

   services similar to not being registered in the DNS at all.  Also,

   PTR records must point back to a valid A record, not a alias defined

   by a CNAME.  It is highly recommended that you use some software

   which automates this checking, or generate your DNS data from a

   database which automatically creates consistent data.
That advice came out in Feb 1996.  You're being bit by the 3rd sentence.

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 14:39:34 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
You don't need specs.
My point was you might have better luck emailing people

if you have that A record.
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