Re: [tlug] (OT) Reverse DNS resolution blues- ISP recommendations?

[Brett Robson <b-robson@??>]

Curt Sampson wrote:
> You'll have to explain yourself in a different way so I can understand.
> I took your statement, "That's pretty well guaranteed to be rejected
> by many mail servers, quite likely when you connect" to mean that my
> connection or my mail would be rejected, yet I've successfully delivered
> thousands of mail messages though those servers, and not had a single
> bounce due to the remote end not liking my in-addr.arpa records.


That's exactly the point. Maybe I'm not particularly articulate, but 
Scott, Godwin and I have said that reverse domain name lookups are 
important and that many (most?) email servers will reject or flag as 
spam emails originating from servers with dodgy hostnames. That is 
exactly the problem Scott is having. Many networks won't even let you 
send email from your server (blocking outgoing port 25) forcing you to 
send via their email server (sending via the OCN server would be my 
solution). Every system is different and your own personal experience is 
pretty well irrelevant.


Brett