It is becoming more and more prevalent that ISPs are denying recipt of e-mails that do not have a reverse DNS on their e-mail domains. Mainly because of so many spammers using forged headers.
--- Nick Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We currently run our hosted systems requiring > reverse DNS and haven't really > had any complaints about mail not being received. > While there's no rule > requiring reverse DNS, systems without it are much > more likely to be spam > originators in my experience with our system. The > few systems I've come > across that legitimately send mail but had broken > reverse DNS were more than > happy, and able, to fix it quickly and understood > immediately the point of > rejecting connections on such a condition. > > Nicholas Harring > System Administrator > Webley Systems, Inc > 877-609-4795 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Kohlsmith > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 9:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Inter7 mail server doesn't > have reverse DNS! > > > > You'll be losing a lot more legit mail than just > this list if you do > > that. > > Agreed. There is no rule that demands reverse DNS. > It's a nicety and > that's > it. > > Regards, > Andrew >
