Quoting List Mail User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
maps to 69.9.164.210, but the reverse of 69.9.164.210 is faye.voxel.net - in
particular do you have problems with ISPs like AOL?). Also, I'm not sure
if my own servers would accept mail from a host like that - It would depend
on the HELO/EHLO argument you used. Would you try and send a test message to
Actually, your domain won't accept mail from me - only from the list.
I'm on a
shared server with a shared IP, so the mail server sending mail will
never have
the same reverse as my domain. I think this is perfectly valid, but
evidently,
you don't.
have a single exception case where a server that talks regularly to me has
forward and reverse DNS that don't match - and they pay me, and they just
contracted out the DNS and email and are having lots of problems with many
sites refusing mail from them.
This is why I don't do HELO or header checks except to make sure its somewhat
sane, and even that is removed for authenticated users as Windows machines can
never get that right. Its better to let one spam in then to shut out
one valid
email. And I don't normally have spam getting through.
-- Evan
