Your rDNS: mail.jwmhosting.com looks correct to me. I just did a telnet check of your smtp server:
$ telnet telnet > open mail.jwmhosting.com 25 telnet > helo foo.com reply shows: 250 jwmhosting.com Hello foo.com [xx.xx.xx.xx]) <- my ip address What is important here is the helo name : jwmhosting.com. It should say mail.jwmhosting.com. This is a spammer flag and can get your mail rejected depending on the host. That is what the mail-tester service is complaining about. You set this in smptserver.xml (smtpserver.conf in beta4?) Look for the block below, change it : <helloName autodetect=“false”>mail.jwmhosting.com</helloName> <!-- This is the name used by the server to identify itself in the SMTP --> <!-- protocol. If autodetect is TRUE, the server will discover its --> <!-- own host name and use that in the protocol. If discovery fails, --> <!-- the value of 'localhost' is used. If autodetect is FALSE, James --> <!-- will use the specified value. --> <!-- <helloName autodetect="true">myMailServer</helloName> --> FYI, beta4 has a deadlocking problem, you might want to upgrade to beta 5. I have instructions on how to build it from source on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChNyi0dlyanLLhp7cA9q5dA or if you prefer a text tutorial, on my blog: http://blog.bonnydoonmedia.com/post.cfm/building-apache-james-from-source On Oct 26, 2014, at 10:44 PM, Jerry Malcolm <techst...@malcolms.com> wrote: > I have been running James 3 b4 for several months. I was having some > outbound mail rejected by gmail and started doing some research. I did an > email test using mail-tester.com and got the error message that my HELO did > not match the rDNS. It reports: > > IP: 64.34.163.186 > HELO: p2825577 > rDNS: mail.jwmhosting.com > > The p2825577 number is my Windows Server 2008 machine name. I don't want to > use that. > > In the RemoteDelivery mailet config, I have the following: > > <mail.smtp.localhost>mail.jwmhosting.com</mail.smtp.localhost> > > If I'm reading the instructions correctly, this should cause the specified > value (mail.jwmhosting.com) to be sent on the HELO instead of the p282... > number, correct? But it isn't. > > What am I doing wrong? > > BTW... I tried changing my rDNS to the p282... number. rDNS's have to be a > fully qualified domain name. So it won't take it. Fine... I then tried > changing my Win Server 08 machine name to be mail.jwmhosting.com. No go on > that either. Can't have periods in Win machines names.... So I'm stuck. > Please advise.... > > This is kinda urgent since I now realize that there's a distinct possibility > that some of my clients' emails are not getting through due to this. So > thanks in advance for a quick reply to this. > > Jerry > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-user-unsubscr...@james.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: server-user-h...@james.apache.org >