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Re: [spf-discuss] Empty MX name

2005-12-29 08:09:42

Theo Schlossnagle wrote:
Julian Mehnle wrote:

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Stuart D. Gathman wrote:

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Legalistic reason: "MX 0 ." is illegal because "." is not a valid FQDN, at
least not for what is generally considered an FQDN by the SPF
specification.
Yahoo believes that a "NULL MX" means the following:

http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/draft-delany-nullmx/

I'd tend to agree.

Hmmm. Isn't that a violation of some RFC? Because allowing a domain to send but never receive means that there is no recourse for abuse@ postmaster@ etc. Indeed, not even anywhere to send DSN's...

Perhaps I am missing something, please set me straight.  :)

Terry


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