>OK, been on the phone with AOL.  In looking at the logs, it appears
>the messages from these groups are not containing anything in the
>To address.

well, you'll see in the imail logs the envelope recipient, that's not 
enough. Is the envelope recipient an AOL account?

>Therefore AOL just dumps it.  They also suggested some DNS changes,

such as?

>can someone check out wcmail.net and let me how it looks?

perfect, 'cept no reverse.

>Actually, if our server is setup with wcmail.net on a shared IP on
>one server and the mail is on another IP that is shared, could this
>be a problem?

your guess is as good as anybody's.

>Here is how it is set-up, maybe something is wrong here?????
>
>wcmail.net  206.160.244.71 on Server 1
>mail.wcmail.net 206.160.244.72 on Server 2

nothing illegal about that

>Basically they are saying a reverse on wcmail.net

one "reverses" an ip, not a hostname.

>is returning 206.160.244.69

mgw1# dig -x 206.160.244.69

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> -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


mgw1# dig wcmail.net a

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> wcmail.net a
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      wcmail.net, type = A, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
wcmail.net.             23h59m47s IN A  206.160.244.71

there is no reverse assignment of 206.160.244.71

>which is our servers IP, but has nothing to do with wcmail.net.

????



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