Douglas Otis wrote:
Well Doug, go ahead and proposed it, write an I-D, see how it flies in
IETF-SMTP. And while you are there see if you get the IMC.ORG to stop
using MAIL.IMG.ORG as the return path domain WITHOUT a MX record.
Using your concept, you effectly stopped all bounce mail back to their
return path.
Hector,
You seem to have confused the concept of deprecate and obsolete. The
suggestion was to deprecate the use of A records for discovery. (As in
suggesting this will soon become obsolete.)
HA! I call this a state of purgatory!! :-)
This suggestion will not cause mail.imc.org to cease functioning.
[CLIP]
Doug, this all sounds great.
But you still need to convince Paul to fix the return path for all
the managed IETF mailing list before you can even begin to discuss this
in IETF-SMTP. :-)
Once the argument is thrown out that only a "Few legit" systems still
exist, hence it is safe to enforce a MX record, people will point that
that not even an IETF entity is following the very concept you wish to
make obsolete. So its not going to be very convincing that it now safe
to do what you want across the board, yet alone change the SMTP
specification.
This reminds me of the classic scene in Dumb and Dumber: "What are my
chances?" "Like one in a million" "So I still have a chance!?" :-)
--
Sincerely
Hector Santos, CTO
http://www.santronics.com
http://santronics.blogspot.com
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