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Re: Google threatens to break Gmail

2015-10-24 21:41:08
Den 25. okt. 2015 02:58, skrev Ted Lemon:
On Oct 24, 2015, at 7:40 PM, Randy Bush <randy(_at_)psg(_dot_)com
<mailto:randy(_at_)psg(_dot_)com>> wrote:
have you
seen the hoops one has to jump through to smtp over v6 to google?  they
outsource their alleged pain to the rest of the internet.

No, actually I haven’t.   It Just Works for me.   I was surprised, but
pleased.


The requirement in v6 that didn't exist in v4 is that you have to have a
PTR record for your MTA's IPv6 address before Google wants to let you
send SMTP over IPv6.

In IPv4, the absence of a PTR record was taken as a spam signal,
together with all the other spam signals; in IPv6, they decided to just
say "no".