Well, it looks like reverse DNS. Stupid me didn't realize that the receiving servers (AOL) look for a reverse record from "walkerschools.org" (the server part of the e-mail address) instead of "mail.walkerschools.org" (the actual hostname that connects to them).
Anyway, when you do a reverse on walkerschools.org, it points to my www server because I like my users to be able to surf to our website without typing "www" before walkerschools.org. I've e-mailed one person off-list, but anyone with suggestions please let me know. -Curtis ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 09:27:38 -0500 > >>We couldn't send any eMails to AOL, but the mailserver said delivered. The >>We just changed the outgoing address of our mailserver - that's all, it works! > >That's bad advice (sorry!). > >AOL was dropping your E-mail for a reason. Switching IPs fixed it, because >the information AOL has on the new IP is different (for example, if your >old mail server IP was listed as an open relay, the new one won't for a >couple weeks or so). Once AOL has whatever information they had before, >they will start blocking your mail again. Check >http://postmaster.info.aol.com to make sure that you comply with their >publicly acknowledged testing (IE make sure you are not an open relay), and >also make sure you comply with the known secret testing (a reverse DNS >entry), and unless there are other problems (such as sending them too much >mail in a given time period), the problem will likely fix itself. > >It's funny how people will complain to their ISP who implements spam >control when an occasional legitimate E-mail from AOL gets caught (such as >when SPAMCOP lists an AOL mailserver that has been sending spam), but I >haven't once heard of AOL users complaining to AOL when AOL deletes >legitimate mail. > > -Scott ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE KillerWebMail account at http://killerwebmail.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- Want to host your own KillerWebMail server? Buy IMail Server plus KillerWebMail from Humankind Systems... http://humankindsystems.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- Does your company need to route, track and archive email between your customers and staff? If so, check out AnswerTrack Server at http://www.AnswerTrack.com... the Lite version is completely FREE! -------------------------------------------------------------------- Books just wanna be free - http://BookCrossing.com - Read & Release! Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
