Dave Koontz writes: > Rose, Bobby wrote ... (9/22/2008 10:24 AM): > > I had the same issue and found that the system that's relaying > > (216.129.105.40) those confirmation emails doesn't have a PTR record. > > You'd think someone selling a antispam/email appliance would be familiar > > with the RFCs. > > > That would explain why I got no confirmation, we do not accept email > from IP's without a PTR record. > > I agree, if true this looks pretty bad for a so called antispam > company.
In fairness -- if you drop mail with no rDNS, you are dropping 3.6% of legit email in general, going by the test results for our RDNS_NONE rule... ;) --j.