Robert Blayzor wrote:
I'm not calling them out on it, I'm just stating that rejecting mail
with a 500 series error due to a PTR record not being looked up will
cause more problems and benefit. Temporary DNS errors do occur so slapping mail with a 500 could and will reject legit mail. Of
course, AOL can do whatever they please....
AOL has a "may" in that caveat ...
Effective immediately: AOL may no longer accept connections from IP addresses which have no reverse-DNS (PTR record) assigned.
That should help you put things in perspective, I guess.
srs
