MTA Protocol and DNS Checks

You can enable restrictions so that the MTA does not accept messages when non standard or other disapproved behavior is exhibited by an incoming SMTP client. These restrictions provide some protection against ill-behaved spam senders.

By default, the following SMTP protocol violators are restricted:

The following DNS based restrictions can also be enabled:

 

Important: Before setting these restrictions, identify what type of mails is received outside of your mail system. If a mail system you want to receive mail from is poorly implemented, you may have to compromise your restrictions to accommodate their messages.