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Re: Mail Server best practices - was: Pandora's Box of new TLDs

  • From: 'Stephane Bortzmeyer'
  • Date: Mon Jun 30 02:53:23 2008

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 03:30:15PM -0500,
 Frank Bulk - iNAME <[email protected]> wrote 
 a message of 35 lines which said:

> Because if you do anything, even as basic as RBLs, you're not being
> consistent with your stance.

The typical use of RBLs is to reject email at the SMTP level, when it
matches an entry in the RBL. That way, the sender is warned that
something went wrong, email does not disappear silently.