> Exactly  my  understanding.

Eh, no. I don't think you followed Len precisely.

> Further,  it's  my  understanding  that reverse checks done by other
> mail  servers on mail that we send looks at the sender domain in the
> envelope  of the email and the IP address of the machine sending the
> email (also in the envelope) then does a reverse lookup on the IP to
> see if it matches the domain.

No,  this  is  not  the case. The PTR and the MAIL FROM: domain do not
need  to  match  (unless you are deliberately using mechanisms such as
SPF and the remote server is checking your SPF records--not to confuse
the issue, but this is an exception).

> If  it  doesn't,  they  reject  the email causing the "blocking call
> cancelled" errors in the Imail SMTP log.

I doubt you've established that this is the reason that the connection
is dropped.

>   By   default,  Imail  writes  the  virtual  domain  to  the  email
> envelope...

IMail  echoes  the  virtual host's official host name in the EHLO/HELO
greeting.  You  _do_  need  to  have  an A record corresponding to the
official host name.

> ...and since we have multiple virtual domains, the IP never reverses
> to that domain.

That's  not  your  problem. You surely are missing another ingredient:
correctly  delegated  PTR; sender-IP-to-PTR-to-A-to-sender-IP mapping;
extant  A  record  for  official host name; and extant A/MX record for
envelope  sender  domain  are other places to look. If you provide the
real IP and DNS info, we can look into further from remote locations.

--Sandy


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