HI, I've got two things to say: 1) Yahoo Groups will IMMEDIATELY generate lots of spam to any email addresses you give it. They also keep the copyright to anything that passes through their servers. That means they can sell your combined knowledge, or worse, charge you to search your own archives. There is also no guarantee that they will continue to offer the eGroup service. Also they insert an annoyingly large ad into most of the emails you receive via the eGroup. It gets old fast. So I'm strongly against a move to Yahoo Groups. Besides, Eskimo.com has been stable & solid for a number of years now, so that ought to count for something.
2) I also run my own mail server on a DSL line. I have several domains and one IP number, so even if my ISP would agree to edit the PTR, It's not going to pass a reverse DNS test for my multiple domains. I seem to have solved the reverse DNS on SMTP server by using looking up my IP number and using whatever I found there in Claris Emailer as my SMTP server. In my case, my IP number is 64.34.171.21 and one of my domains is SBAMUG.com. If I look up my IP number, it says that the name is dsl-64-34-171-21.telocity.com . If I then look up that name (a reverse lookup) it shows my IP number again, and therefore by using the name that the ISP gave my IP number,i can pass the reverse DNS test. Note that no configuration changes are necessary anywhere except the SMTP server setting in Claris Emailer for that account. I did not change anything in the DNS, nor on the email server at all. Just made my outgoing SMTP server name in an Emailer account be dsl-64-34-171-21.telocity.com instead of mail.sbamug.com. My outgoing email still shows the correct return & reply-to addresses. Best, Dave Nathanson Mac Medix ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
