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Re: [LUG] email

 

Mick Vaites wrote:

> Most individuals with their own mailservers (on dsl lines most likely) don't
> run MX's they use smart hosts or backup MX's with their ISP. Eitherway
> neither the smarthost nor the backup MX has any knowledge of whether an
> email address at the domain exists.

BCP is also not to run secondary MX machines that can't authoritatively
accept or reject messages for a domain.  That it is possible to do so is
demonstrated by the fact that some people do it.  That it may be
administratively or logistically difficult isn't in doubt either.

James

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