[Chandler-dev] smtp problem - possible hint?

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 09:48 PM 11/23/2006 -0500, Reid Ellis wrote:
>The next question is - which end is at fault? Will there be other
>servers configured to be equally restrictive?

I think this is the default for Postfix mail servers.  At least, mine is 
that way and I don't recall needing to explicitly configure it to do that.


>  Or is laweleka being
>overly negative about the whole thing?

The SMTP protocol has actually required a valid FQDN host name for over 24 
years now...  even before Gore invented the internet, or Stevens rebuilt it 
with a series of tubes!  :)  See RFC 821 for the (dare I say it?) gore-y 
details.