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You're missing the point. [email protected] is going to go to whatever MX example.com returns. Sean's point was that you can't cause, e.g., [email protected] alone to go to a server other than the same set of servers listed for [email protected] If that ([email protected]) overloads those servers, even if they're valiantly trying to pass the connection off to another machine, then you have to use some other method like [email protected] or [email protected] and hope the clients will somehow use that tho for BIGCOMPANY there's a tendency to just bang in [email protected] It can be a problem in joe jobs, as one e.g. If you think I'm wrong (or Sean's wrong) even for a milisecond then trust me, this is going right over your head. Think again or email me privately and I'll try to be more clear. P.S. It's an interesting thought. The only approach to a solution I could imagine is that the whole address would have to be passed in the MX query. On November 21, 2007 at 21:06 [email protected] (Paul Jakma) wrote: > > > > An unfortunate limitation of the SMTP protocol is it initially only > > looks at the right-hand side of an address when connecting to a > > server to send e-mail, and not the left-hand side. > > > full) or the normal server administrators may make changes which > > affects all addresses passing through that server (i.e. block by IP > > address). > > I guess you're saying there's something architectural in email that > makes it impossible/difficult (limitation) to apply different policy > to the LHS. > > That's not correct though. The receiving MTA is quite free to apply > differing policies to different LHSes. And at least one MTA allows > you special-case measures applied to tables of addresses, such as > whether DNSbl lookups should be applied. > > SMTP is distributed, so you do of course have to take care to keep > distributed policy consistent. But, again, that has nowt to do with > LHS/RHS of email addresses. > > regards, > -- > Paul Jakma [email protected] [email protected] Key ID: 64A2FF6A > Fortune: > A plumber is needed, the network drain is clogged -- -Barry Shein The World | [email protected] | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD | Login: Nationwide Software Tool & Die | Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*
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