[103789] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fwd: Problems sending mail from .mumble
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Apr 14 11:47:32 2008
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, ebw@abenaki.wabanaki.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:50:25 EDT."
<18434.32801.576299.30142@world.std.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:17:56 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:50:25 EDT, Barry Shein said:
> > So this is (yet another) fishing expidition -- as MIME types are a handy
> > list, if any of those strings were present in a header, as in
> > mail-from-foo@bar.MIME-TYPE, would any well-known thingee choke?
As a practical matter, 'bar.mime-type' had better be a proper DNS entry, or
a lot of places that do a "is the address at least putatively returnable?"
test (which *should* be essentially 100% - does anybody *not* check this?),
they will find it won't go very far.
As a second practical matter, I suspect that all the places that have already
decided that '*.biz' is a cesspool will be even more dubious accepting mail
from 'foo@bar.application.octet-stream'.
I'm still trying to figure out if this was for real, or if it was intended
to be posted 2 weeks ago and ICANN bureaucracy delayed it... ;)
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