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domain exceptions

2004-10-25 by Gary Aitken

Hello all,

I just noticed the 31 byte limit / truncation problem with domain
names has been fixed, great!

There is another problem, as I see it, with domain exceptions.
The mail host for a domain is not necessarily a member of the
domain.  Consequently, when you add an exception for foobar.com,
thinking you are allowing mail from foobar.com, that may not
actually be the case.  I've gotten caught on this more than once.

I'm wondering if there are any plans to add an option, say
"include_mx_domain" or something like that, which would look
up the mx records for each domain, and add them in as well.
Granted, it would take some extra time and resources, but if
one were concerned with that one could do the manual lookups
and add them in and turn the switch off.  However, doing so
would cause potential errors if the mx records were changed.

As it stands, whenever one adds a domain, one has to do a manual
lookup on the mx records to be sure nothing is missing.

Gary

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