On the inoc-dba subject

Mon Feb 6 12:16:23 UTC 2006

Is it really cluefull to have this paragraph?

"
Please make sure that your spam filters allow email from "pch.net"
before you sign up, since we will need to automatically verify your
email address.
"

Since we all know that whitelisting and blacklisting by in-band stated 
"from" email address is quite wrong-headed, from a clue standpoint.

Perhaps something like this?

"
Please make sure that your spam filters allow email sent from 
<ip-addresses> with a from address of pch.net before you sign up, since 
we will need to automatically verify your email address.
"

Where <ip-addresses> is the output of a dig command against the outgoing 
smtp servers sending the notifications?

In general, ML and other automated email things should have a way to 
display the bounce to the user, which would mean storing it for some 
small period of time. Otherwise it becomes rather difficult to do the 
right thing filtering wise.

(Google seems to do this for their notifications that get 45x/55x)

Joe