Barry Warsaw wrote: > >Which ISP do you use? I have a static IP from my cable company but >they refuse to give me an rDNS entry. In every other way, I really >like them, but I do get bounces occasionally from people's (IMHO) >misconfigured MTAs who don't accept mail from cable rDNSs.
I use value.net, now a part of amerion.com, but I don't recommend them. My IP is a DSL connection from amerion.com, but it is via dslextreme.com. I don't know the exact relationship between amerion.com and dslextreme.com, but I have no specific problem with dslextreme.com. Amerion.com is not too responsive. On the rDNS issue, I sent three email requests to Amerion customer service over about 2 weeks. I got no response to the first two. The third request was responded to with "I've forwarded this to engineering" and the change was made a few days later in only one of two name servers. One more email produced an apology and an update of the second DNS a day or two later. I also can't seem to get them to recognize that their MTA at mail.value.net (Ipswitch Imail, aka SMTPD32, on a MS Windows box) is seriously overloaded or misconfigured resulting in its often reaching its maximum number of concurrent port 25 sessions which causes it to stop listening and refuse a port 25 connect until something finishes. I got so frustrated with connect refusals on my attempts to send mail that I started using my own MTA. That ultimately solved my sending problem, but not the issue of delayed and out of sequence incoming mail. (Actually, I think they've done something as the situation isn't as bad as it once was, but it's still a problem). People see/hear this rant and ask why I just don't go somewhere else, and I have no good answer - just inertia and an attachment to my value.net address. Paul Tomblin wrote: >The biggest problem I had when I was doing a mailman list on my home >server was that many sites would refuse email from IPs that were on their >RBLs list of dynamic IPs. Yes, some of them look for a valid rDNS, but >99.99% of them were perfectly happy with an rDNS of >"74-202-84-132.static.twtelecom.net" rather than "list.xcski.com". Actually, when I first started using my own MTA, I just configured the MTA's primary host name as netblock-68-183-193-239.dslextreme.com, and things worked well except for earthlink.net. I don't know if they would have liked me better if the name had been netblock-68-183-193-239.static.dslextreme.com, but I wound up going through the whole domain registration/rDNS dance before I could get them to unblock me. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
