postfix issue...

[Tim]

Craig White:

> I actually have a long set of postfix rules which determine which mail
> gets through - far more than 'simply forward and reverse checking' and
> I'm surprised that you would think I would do less.

Might have something to do with you saying this:

"At this stage, I simply will not accept mail from any smtp server
whose forward & reverse DNS don't match. So if you are sending me
e-mails from server mail.example.com you better have a reverse DNS
address that tells me that your ip address points to mail.example.com."

If you didn't mean what you said, you should have said something
different.  Because, quite frankly, what you *said* isn't going to work.

While I set all possible domain names (web server, mail server, MX
records, etc.), to use my domain name instead of the hosting services,
I cannot set the PTR for my host's mail server to point to my domain.
And neither can thousands of other people.

This, is laughable, too:

> I do this for many companies that are my clients and I get absolutely
> no complaints (and very little spam).

They're not going to know if they've not received real mail that was
falsely identified as spam.  Nor will you know about it if you make it
impossible to email you about it.

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