I am not trying to start a flame war here, I just want to make sure noone gets the wrong impression and confirm or disprove what I thought SMTP-AUTH was. As far as I can tell from RFC 2554 SMTP-AUTH really has nothing to do with checking reverse DNS, it is just an authentication method.
on Wed Dec 18 samcfug spoke forth with the blessed manuscript > I see your point, however, in my own case as a email hosting provider, I have > the settings set to enable SMTP AUTH, which is what you mean by doing the > reverse lookup. I also make it a point to create the "in-addr-arpa" record in > DNS that takes care of it. That is just another task in hosting email domains. > In fact I use a script that takes care of all this when adding a new domain. > If you were an ISP or hosting provider, you would be aware of the constant > attacks by others trying to spoof one of your hosted addresses, including virus > attacks such as the Klez Virus, which are all turned away at the server. > That is my story, and I am sticking to it! :-) > ===================================== > Douglas White > group Manager > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.samcfug.org > ===================================== > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lee Fuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:12 PM > Subject: RE: OT: AOL? > | Ya know.. Don't let them hit you with that. > | > | The problem is, new sysadmins tend to think that making changes is part > | of their job. We had a MAJOR battle with HUD since one of our customers > | submits information to them via email regularly. Suddenly, they could > | not contact HUD, due to a policy change by a new admin who decided that > | if the email server didn't reverse to the same domain name, it was > | most-likely SPAM. The problem is (as you are most likely aware) that > | with 1000's of domain names on a single mail server, how could you > | POSSIBLY reverse to them? Even if you added all the reverse names to > | your DNS server manually, it would never answer with the right one > | first.. So it's not logical. > | > | We have to force them to understand that THEY are not the ONLY ISP on > | the planet... and that making willy-nilly admin decisions effects > | millions. If we fight back, they will change the policy. > | > | Just my .02... > | > | > | > | | -----Original Message----- > | | From: Kris Pilles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > | | Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 11:05 AM > | | To: CF-Talk > | | Subject: RE: OT: AOL? > | | > | | > | | Aol says my reverse DNS is not up.... But everything on my > | | server appears to be working fine.... I guess its my fault > | | after all lol > | | > | | -----Original Message----- > | | From: Bud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > | | Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:44 PM > | | To: CF-Talk > | | Subject: RE: OT: AOL? > | | > | | > | | On 12/18/02, Kris Pilles penned: > | | >No good.... This sucks... MY clients are starting to notice this > | | >too..... Weird thing is the mail just disappears... No > | | bounce back or > | | >anything like that... > | | > | | I occasionally have similar problems. I ALWAYS use them as an > | | opportunity to point out to my client that they are LIKELY losing > | | other e-mails, some which may be important. I point out to them (as > | | Howie did to you) that they don't generally bounce the e-mails, so > | | the sender has no way of knowing what the problem is so they may > | | rectify it, or even if there is a problem on his/her end and that the > | | best course of action is to dump AOL for a true ISP. > | | > | | That said, I do have an AOL account which I use for testing web > | | sites. Email address is buddy123. I'll be glad to check the account > | | if you want to send something there. > | | -- > | | > | | Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations > | | > | | _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > | | ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development > | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.twcreations.com/ 954.721.3452 > | | > | | > | > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
