I see your point, however, in my own case as a email hosting provider, I have the settings set to enable SMTP AUTH, which is what you mean by doing the reverse lookup. I also make it a point to create the "in-addr-arpa" record in DNS that takes care of it. That is just another task in hosting email domains. In fact I use a script that takes care of all this when adding a new domain. If you were an ISP or hosting provider, you would be aware of the constant attacks by others trying to spoof one of your hosted addresses, including virus attacks such as the Klez Virus, which are all turned away at the server. That is my story, and I am sticking to it! :-)
===================================== Douglas White group Manager mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.samcfug.org ===================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Fuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:12 PM Subject: RE: OT: AOL? | Ya know.. Don't let them hit you with that. | | The problem is, new sysadmins tend to think that making changes is part | of their job. We had a MAJOR battle with HUD since one of our customers | submits information to them via email regularly. Suddenly, they could | not contact HUD, due to a policy change by a new admin who decided that | if the email server didn't reverse to the same domain name, it was | most-likely SPAM. The problem is (as you are most likely aware) that | with 1000's of domain names on a single mail server, how could you | POSSIBLY reverse to them? Even if you added all the reverse names to | your DNS server manually, it would never answer with the right one | first.. So it's not logical. | | We have to force them to understand that THEY are not the ONLY ISP on | the planet... and that making willy-nilly admin decisions effects | millions. If we fight back, they will change the policy. | | Just my .02... | | | | | -----Original Message----- | | From: Kris Pilles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | | Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 11:05 AM | | To: CF-Talk | | Subject: RE: OT: AOL? | | | | | | Aol says my reverse DNS is not up.... But everything on my | | server appears to be working fine.... I guess its my fault | | after all lol | | | | -----Original Message----- | | From: Bud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | | Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:44 PM | | To: CF-Talk | | Subject: RE: OT: AOL? | | | | | | On 12/18/02, Kris Pilles penned: | | >No good.... This sucks... MY clients are starting to notice this | | >too..... Weird thing is the mail just disappears... No | | bounce back or | | >anything like that... | | | | I occasionally have similar problems. I ALWAYS use them as an | | opportunity to point out to my client that they are LIKELY losing | | other e-mails, some which may be important. I point out to them (as | | Howie did to you) that they don't generally bounce the e-mails, so | | the sender has no way of knowing what the problem is so they may | | rectify it, or even if there is a problem on his/her end and that the | | best course of action is to dump AOL for a true ISP. | | | | That said, I do have an AOL account which I use for testing web | | sites. Email address is buddy123. I'll be glad to check the account | | if you want to send something there. | | -- | | | | Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations | | | | _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ | | ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.twcreations.com/ 954.721.3452 | | | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
