Ah, thanks! I thought requiring a valid PTR was a little harsh... > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of R. > Scott Perry > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 9:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] EHLO values > > > > >The problem I'm running into is some mail servers are > rejecting email > >because the DNS PTR record for the server's ip address matches > >domain1.com, but when it EHLO's with domain2.com it doesn't > match and > >the receiving server rejects the mail. What can I do? > > You can ignore the non-problem. > > The problem here is that the remote mailserver is configured > in a way that > it shouldn't be. They have their mailserver set up in a way > so that it is > not RFC-compliant, and so that quite a bit of legitimate mail > will rejected. > > Unfortunately, there are some people that have a very > militant attitude > towards spam (or are just clueless), and it is often > impossible to make > them happy. > > Over 20% of the legitimate mail we receive here comes from > mailservers with > no reverse DNS entry. None of our customers that I am aware > of is willing > to drop over 20% of their legitimate mail in order to reduce spam, no > matter how bad the spam problem is. > > So this is really a problem on the remote end. > > -Scott > --- > Declude JunkMail: The advanced anti-spam solution for IMail > mailservers. Declude Virus: Catches both viruses and > vulnerabilities in E-mail, with no > annual licensing fees. > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)]
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