Tracy wrote:

>At 10:38 1/13/2004, Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
>  
>
>>Right, but getting back to Dale's original concern, his virtual domains
>>won't fail the remote server's RDNS check if the DNS for his SMTP server
>>is configured correctly. And he shouldn't be afraid to use RDNS to check
>>the validity of a remote server. Even a couple of years ago spoofing was
>>relatively rare and a mail server that failed RDNS was not a big deal.
>>Today about half of the spam I see is rejected by RDNS before my users
>>see it. IMHO any SMTP server that fails RDNS is broken and should be fixed.
>>    
>>
>True. However, most RDNS checks today are to determine that a mail server 
>(ie. a connecting IP address) *has* a PTR record, not to match the PTR 
>record with the HELO or MAIL FROM domain.
>  
>

Interesting. Does XMail compare domains or does it just check for 
existence of the PTR record? I don't think I've ever seen this 
documented anywhere.

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