[ietf-clear] Kickoff encouragement - CSV quotes.

[Carl Hutzler]

On 9/29/04 5:52 PM, "James Couzens" <jcouzens at 6o4.ca> wrote:

> 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

I have proprietary MTAs, Development cycles, QA and installation that must
work well for about 90 million mailboxes.

It takes a little while longer :-)



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