Grant Griffith wrote:
> I have called AOL again and hope to get called back shortly. Just to
> update everyone, they had said that the domain wcmail.net did not reverse
> and the To: header was blank. That was why the email had been filtered out.
>
> In discussion with this group, they should not require a reverse and the
> RCPT TO: is where they should be looking for the aol.com addresses the
> messages are being sent to. Is this correct?
The preferred MX for wcmail.net is mail.wcmail.net which has an
IP address of 206.160.244.72. "Reversing" 206.160.244.72 yields
mail.iwca.org so from one point of view it looks like there's
something fishy going on, iwca.org ain't wcmail.net.
The RCPT TO: is the address on the envelope, the TO: is the address
on the enclosed letter. A common attribute of spam is they don't agree.
Certainly a blank TO: is questionable.
As to the issue of should AOL (or others) drop mail that fails their
tests, that's up to the contract between them and their users. Most
people want to reduce the amount of spam they get. Some are willing
to drop (supposedly) real mail to achieve the reduction.
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