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Claire (9711m$cl@siberia.demon.co.uk) wrote:
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> Subject:      Re: SMTP implementation in KA9Q
> From:         Graham E Kinns <Graham@grempc.demon.co.uk>
> Date:         1996/01/09
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> In article <821135729snz@pdlmail.demon.co.uk>,
>            Peter Disdale <pete@pdlmail.demon.co.uk> wrote

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> The other problem that you might see, depending on where your mail is 
> destined, is that the mail domain resolver in KA9Q is, I believe, 
> somewhat broken and does not comply with RFC974 (STD 14 - "Mail routing 
> and the domain system") - if an MX (mail) record doesn't exist for the 
> given mail address, KA9Q should attempt to contact the host in the 
> address directly, but it doesn't - it starts making up wildcard 
> truncations of the address and looks these up - which takes ages and 
> doesn't get any response from the servers, eventually it will give up not 
> having found anything and only then try and send it to the real host.

Many thanks for the full info. This is at odds with the previous
opinion of the colleagues at Demon I consulted when checking the
behavior of ka9q. I will persue the issue from the above.

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Malcolm S. Muir                                Demon Internet Ltd.
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