Subj : Perl Stuff
To   : Russ Johnson
From : Dave Emory
Date : Wed Aug 22 2001 11:43 am

On Tuesday August 21 2001, Russ Johnson wrote to Jame Clay:

 >> I was going to respond to your message here in the PERL echo from my
 >> system, but the message doesn't seem to have gotten there...   (I
 >> also tried an email to you, but my work mail system wouldn't send
 >> it;   something about how the address didn't resolve...)

 RJ> Hmm, I have sendmail set to only accept email from senders that
 RJ> resolve. If your email client is putting your machine name in your
 RJ> email address, that will cause this problem.

 RJ> It's a spam control measure. You'd be surprised at how much spam that
 RJ> one thing got rid of. :)

Hi, Russ.  What exactly do you mean by 'resolve'?  I suspect you mean the 
server doing the smtp connection to your system has a valid hostname & domain. 
Or are you verifying the validity of the person/username the message is from?

  TTYL -=- Dave

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