[62287] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verisign changes violates RFC2821, and spam implications
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Campbell)
Wed Sep 17 09:46:47 2003
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:45:30 +0200 (CEST)
From: Bruce Campbell <bc-nanog@vicious.dropbear.id.au>
To: "Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS" <billstewart@att.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5AFA5A2C102DAB4692ABC1E87E0780CA05315997@OCCLUST02EVS1.ugd.att.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS wrote:
> is there some conceivable case for which this system _would_ accept a message,
> e.g. postmaster@real-name-for-that-machine.verisign.com ?
There would be no reason for that particular machine(s) to receive
legitimate email for itself, as Verisign can (and should) easily put an MX
record pointing to another machine to handle legitimate mail directed
@sitefinder-idn.verisign.com . Ergo, the hopefully more polite version of
Snubby can cancel the SMTP transaction without having to check whether its
mail directed to itself.
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Bruce.
