Re: one uninformed comment about 2.99.49p6 (acceptdns +)

[Eugene Crosser <crosser@online.ru>]

> Earlier (a few weeks ago), _my_ ISP (i.e., interlog.com, not uunet.ca)
> tried to do that (with Sendmail 8), but immediately got a lot of complaints
> from users. The problem is that a lot of people now deliberately set their
> addresses to invalid addresses in an attempt to block spam. Activating
> acceptifdns (correct me if I am wrong) would block all such legitimate mail
> from reaching your site.

I tend to think that these deliberately invalid addresses are plain
contradiction to RFC822 4.4.1 and therefore *may* be rejected by an MTA.
In other words, `anti-spam' addresses are NOT legitimate.

Eugene