RE: [IMail Forum] AOL eats mailing list mail.

[Len Conrad]

>         What do I need to do to get a reverse on wcmail.net. Is 
> this a DNS setting
>I am missing?

AOL can't do reverse lookup as rejection criterion

you have to get your upstream DNS to delegate reverse authority your DNS

>Aso, on the log stuff.  AOL's log says there is NO To address, that is why
>they dump the message.  My IMail logs show each of the AOL accounts just
>fine.

so they're full of it.

>The reverse is one of the issues they brought up that might cause messages
>to be dropped.

It would be so much simpler for everybody if ISPzilla would reject at 
their gateways and say WTF the reason was, instead of discarding mail silently.

tons of mail servers don't have reverse, so you can't rejec on 
reverse, too many false positives.

Len

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