Chris Wedgwood wrote:
On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 03:47:46PM +1200, Simon Blake wrote:
that was pretty much what I had (sans TXT record), and it certainly is a better thing to do from a "not annoying the other end" point of view, but it still breaks the RFC - postmaster mail still doesn't get through.
You have to break the RFCs no matter what here, not annoying the other end is also an important consideration.
The advantage (that just occured to me :-) of using 127.0.0.1 is that it makes it easier to test my filtering for city.wellington.net.nz, because from the machine the box will still quite cheerfully handle mail for that host.
127.0.0.1 will break and cause problems for some NT centric MTAs and other broken software.
Sure it won't affect you, but of the millions of clueless dolts out there, its bound to affect one or ten of them.
This certainly sounds like a reason to do it then - the more clue challenged folk out there who get thumped the better I say! -- Mailto:Andy.Linton(a)netlink.net.nz Tel: +64 4 494 6162 Post: Netlink, PO Box 5358, Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand -- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog