>I am having an issue with the host name on IMail and reverse lookups. > >Running IMail 6.06 on a Windows 2000 machine. Under the Imail >Administator, localhost, General tab, Host Name says mail.encode.com When >communications with other mail servers my SMTP helo is only sent as >encode.com When they do a reverse lookup for an A record for encode.com >there isn't one because the email server is at a different IP, so they >refuse my email. Any thoughts? Can I change the helo transmit?
Reverse lookups are on the ip of the sending ip, not the HELO/EHLO hostname Miraculously, yours is cool: # dig -x 206.130.189.51 ; <<>> DiG 9.2.0 <<>> -x 206.130.189.51 ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 24791 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;51.189.130.206.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR ;; ANSWER SECTION: 51.189.130.206.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR mail.encode.com. Let's see the error message of the rejection. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
