Ah, excuse me, the "validate sender" is a separate selection on the mail server. Sorry
===================================== Douglas White group Manager mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.samcfug.org ===================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Burnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 2:24 PM Subject: Re: OT: AOL? | I am not trying to start a flame war here, I just want to make sure | noone gets the wrong impression and confirm or disprove what I thought | SMTP-AUTH was. As far as I can tell from RFC 2554 SMTP-AUTH | really has nothing to do with checking reverse DNS, it is just an | authentication method. | | on Wed Dec 18 samcfug spoke forth with the blessed manuscript | > 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 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
