> Aiming for a quiet life Michael. It's my own server and I don't > particularly mind if I break any rules discouraging scammers > and hackers.
I'm sick of people like you breaking SMTP. I operate mail servers for 12 years and i've been on the "wrong side" of mail filtering more than once and without me doing wrong. I've seen mail returned for RDNS failure (when the DNS was working) and other obscure reasons. As a former technician at an ISP i also know that getting RDNS can sometimes be in fact a problem, especially on newly assigned network blocks. Due to this i already had to operate a mail server on a host without RDNS. While a valid RDNS is preferred there is nothing wrong with that. Missing RDNS is at best a very weak indication of spam. If you really want to take this into account, use it as part of a scoring system (e.g. spamassassin) but not as a sole reason. People like you make email less reliable day after day. If you do not want to receive mail, just shut down your MTA. Regards Michael -- It's an insane world, but i'm proud to be a part of it. -- Bill Hicks
