Our ISP refused to set up a PTR. Many of them are ignorant about how it works or don't want to take the chance you would get one of their IP's blacklisted. Finally told them we were going else ware and they caved with the stipulation if we get blacklisted they won't do anything to help us.
________________________________ From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Not wanting to be a spammer They either won't or don't know how but it is an avenue I can never get them to understand. From: Richard Stovall <mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues <mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Subject: RE: Not wanting to be a spammer The reverse lookup (PTR record) is created by the ISP that actually assigns the ip address space you use. You'll need to ask them to create one for you. From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Not wanting to be a spammer I have an email mailer I am supposed to send out. It is going to 12000 customers that have asked to be notified by email. I got that script late last week and I have it set up to run from my machine, relay off my exchange server, through my Ironport, and out my firewall. I do not host the mail at imcu.com and that is the address space I want to sent it from. In testing yesterday it seems that everyone will flag me as a spammer because the email source can not be reverse looked up properly. Now I do own a second domain. imcu.org and I do have an MX record that points to my firewall. This seems to be the better way to do it. Have it come from x...@imcu.org but have a reply to of x...@imcu.com. I do host the imcu.org mail server internally so I could just relay off that smtp server through the ironport and out the firewall with little or no worries of getting blacklisted. Right??? Am I even close to thinking this through correctly?? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
