----- Original Message ----- From: "John McKinney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 2:55 AM Subject: Re: SMTP Blocking on port 25
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Daryl Hunt wrote: > Daryl, > > I noticed several replies and haven't really been keeping up with the > thread, but at this point, Yahoo is complaining because your mail > server 'smtp.colwest.com' does not have a reverse DNS entry. > > > > > I sent messages to my i70west.net and i70west.com accounts successfully back > > and forth. It appears that some type of setting is incorrect that won't > > allow yahoo.com to recieve it. And, no, my IP block is not on the bad boy > > list considering the i70west.net account sends just fine. That precludes a > > DNS problem. > > > > Does i70west.net check for a reverse DNS entry? If not, then that would > explain it. Alot of mail servers use this check to cut down on the spam, > but still alot of others do not. So you would still be able to send mail > through the severs that do not check. i70west.net is on the same ip block and works like a charm. One ends with .10 while the other ends in .9. One is a Win2000 system and the other is RH. I have the DNS farmed out to a larger company and the MX seems to be setup correctly on both. I will check into this today to try and get the problem fixed if that is the problem. Thanks for the pointer. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
