[Cialug] RFC & best practices for mail server hostnames?

[Paul Gray]

On 02/01/2013 03:35 PM, Pixie wrote:
>
> o  The domain name given in the EHLO command MUST be either a primary
>     host name (a domain name that resolves to an address RR) or, if
>     the host has no name, an address literal, as described in
>     Section 4.1.3 and discussed further in the EHLO discussion of
>     Section 4.1.4.

That is indeed a club.

I had to hunt through the posts, but it was somewhere referenced that 
the client EHLO identifies as bp75avo2.opr.statefarm.org, which does not 
resolve.

Their system should be identifying it as either [205.242.229.166], 
mail41.statefarm.com, or even a different hostname just so that it resolves.

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