Thank you everyone for the help. Very much appreciated.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vaughn Thurman
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 2:23 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Message header
>
>
> He was steering you in the right direction! Even if you set your
> system to
> identify you as mail.ecsi.net it will still fail reverse lookup. Reverse
> DNS is delegated through upstream providers differently than forward DNS.
> You need to get your ISP to resolve the reverse DNS issue for you. While
> they may charge for forward DNS it would be impolite to charge
> you again for
> the reverse address. They need to resolve that WHILE you resolve the
> hostname issue. Try setting the hostname in IMAIL Administrator
> and restart
> services.
> -V
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Raymond W. Leech, III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 2:13 PM
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Message header
>
>
> > I could fix that, but I think their admin's point was the
> "ecsi37.ecsi.net"
> > fails reverse-lookup. How can I make that always be "mail.ecsi.net" for
> all
> > workstations?
> >
> > Thanx for your response
> > ray
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dave
> MacMillan
> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 2:42 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Message header
> > >
> > >
> > > It is true that some servers will not accept mail if the hostname used
> > > by your mail server, mail.ecsi.net, does not match the hostname in the
> > > PTR record for your IP address.
> > >
> > > mail.ecsi.net does not match ATHM-209-125-xxx-3.home.net.
> > >
> > > mail.ecsi.net.
> > > 209.125.3.3
> > >
> > > 3.3.125.209.in-addr.arpa.
> > > host = ATHM-209-125-xxx-3.home.net.
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > >
> > > In reply to 7 Jul message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > >
> > > >One of our clients is complaining that they will not receive mail
> > > >from us because they reject all mail they cannot confirm with a
> > > >reverse DNS lookup. All of our mail goes out with the machine name
> > > >prefixed to ecsi.net (see example below). We do not have each
> > > >machine name registered with our DNS provider.
> > >
> > > >Is there a way to make every outgoing message have mail.ecsi.net
> > > >in the header instead?? Any pointers are appreciated!
> > >
> > > >Raymond Leech
> > > >ECSI
> > >
> > > >> Received: from ecsi37.ecsi.net [209.125.3.37] by ecsiweb.ecsi.net
> > > >> (SMTPD32-4.07) id AC662A1A014E; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 08:36:54 EST
> > > >> From: "John Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >> Subject: RE: Undeliverable Mail
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