Dan Monjar wrote:
Also, as of 10/1 apparently, AOL is doing a reverse DNS lookup on the sending SMTP box. ALL mail from my company to AOL was bouncing until I could get the reverse RR in place.
That is a fairly typical anti-spam tactic. Well-configured mail relays *should* have PTR records defined for their IP addresses.
--[Lance]
yup, I know... but the thing is I've been running this mail server for 13 years and have never needed the reverse pointer until recently. spam sucks.
-- Dan
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