>Hello all.  I have been sending emailto a couple of email 
>addresses:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thsi email 
>gets rejected when sent by imail but it goes thru ok when sent by my 
>msn dialup account.
>
>The folks at roamway tell me that their servers will reject email if 
>the reverse lookup is disabled.  I am guessing that this is the problem.

don't guess, they're telling explicity what the pb is.

>Is this an imail setting

nothing to do with Imail, strictly a DNS issue.

go here:  www.samspade.org and use the "scan rDNS" and "ip block" 
tools to investigate your reverse situation.

overlooked.Com has no A record:

# dig overlooked.com

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> overlooked.com
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      overlooked.com, type = A, class = IN

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
overlooked.com.         1H IN SOA       dell1300a.communitynic.net. 
administrator.communitynic.net. (
                                         25              ; serial
                                         15M             ; refresh
                                         10M             ; retry
                                         1D              ; expiry
                                         1H )            ; minimum


;; Total query time: 15182 msec
;; FROM: mgw1.meiway.com to SERVER: default -- 212.73.210.69
;; WHEN: Thu Sep 21 21:01:21 2000
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 32  rcvd: 108

# dig overlooked.com mx

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> overlooked.com mx
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      overlooked.com, type = MX, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
overlooked.com.         1H IN MX        10 mail.communityspirit.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
mail.communityspirit.net.  1H IN A  64.32.195.27

;; Total query time: 196 msec
;; FROM: mgw1.meiway.com to SERVER: default -- 212.73.210.69
;; WHEN: Thu Sep 21 21:01:24 2000
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 32  rcvd: 88

your MX has no PTR record, and it looksl like the reverse is not even 
setup by anybody upstream from you:

# dig -x 64.32.195.27

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> -x
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      27.195.32.64.in-addr.arpa, type = ANY, class = IN

Len

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