From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/36383 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Bjørn Mork" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Sender header? Date: 25 May 2001 04:27:32 +0200 Organization: DoD Message-ID: References: <01May23.141128edt.115245@gateway.intersys.com> <01May24.115917edt.115250@gateway.intersys.com> <01May24.143521edt.115214@gateway.intersys.com> <01May24.153439edt.115213@gateway.intersys.com> <01May24.171325edt.115217@gateway.intersys.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171977 8300 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:46:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:46:17 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 2351 invoked by alias); 25 May 2001 02:27:36 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 2346 invoked from network); 25 May 2001 02:27:36 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (195.204.10.139) by gnus.org with SMTP; 25 May 2001 02:27:36 -0000 Original-Received: (from news@localhost) by quimby.gnus.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA30445 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 24 May 2001 04:27:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: c4s142h4.upc.chello.no Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 990671241 20589 62.179.170.4 (24 May 2001 02:27:21 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 May 2001 02:27:21 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 23 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36383 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36383 Stainless Steel Rat writes: > It should have an MX record associated with it. All A records should have > associated MX records. No. All mail names should have MX records. You are assuming that all names with an A record are mail hosts. That's not a requirement, and certainly not true. RFC 1912 recommends adding MX records even for hosts which are not supposed to send or receive mail, but I don't think that justifies ignoring those who don't. > | > Internally those fields should be as canonical as possible. It is the > | > responsiblity of the mail gateway to properly masqerade header fields. > | Where does RFC 2822 make that requirement? > > Definition of "mailbox". Yeah right. You're reading standards like Microsoft. Bjørn