[ietf-clear] Kickoff encouragement - CSV quotes.

James Couzens jcouzens at 6o4.ca
Wed Sep 29 14:52:41 PDT 2004


On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 04:07, Carl Hutzler wrote:
> How about this one....
> 
> "AOL is already coding a capability to check the HELO against a DNS record.
> We hope that a real standard can be agreed upon so we do not have 100
> different ways (record formats) to do this. We hope to have our rough
> capability available in the next 30 days".
> 
> BTW, all true :-)
> 
> -Carl

How does AOL plan on acting upon messages based on HELO checks?

P.S. I wrote that functionality into qmail in about 10 minutes... I'm
curious just what AOL is doing differently that requires the 30 day
window given the trivial nature of such a check?  Can you go into any
more detail?

Cheers,

James

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