Joseph Brennan wrote ... (9/23/2008 2:37 PM): > No, they don't, really. They 'may' do that (see below). Try it. > > Effective immediately: AOL > 220- may no longer accept connections from IP addresses which > 220 have no reverse-DNS (PTR record) assigned. According to AOL's Policy page, they say they WILL block connections with no rDNS. See http://postmaster.aol.com/guidelines/standards.html
* AOL's mail servers will reject connections from any IP address that does not have reverse DNS (a PTR record).