Wildcard records???

[jeremy at xxedgexx.com]

Hello!

Is there any safe way to create a wild card record.  I just start working
for a new company and they have a * in their record which appears to be
causing a lot of problems with mail.  I've always stayed away from it
cause I thought it was considered bad practice.

Problems we're having is with mail.  If we send mail to an invalid domain,
it uses that name as a hostname.  For exmaple, I send mail to
blah at ahahahahaha.com, it bounces but in the header we see this:

blah at ahahahahahaha.com.company.com

which is incorrect.  It causes load and unwanted behavior because no
matter what address we put in place, it hits our smtp server because it
put company.com at the end of any address.

Is there a safe way to use wildcard records, or do you think I should
begin to convince them on getting rid of it.

Thanks
-jeremy


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