On Wed, 18 Sep 2013, Art Greenberg wrote:

I see that RDNS_NONE looks at X-Spam-Relays-External for a blank "rdns= ". I currently don't see that header, but I can see X-Spam-RelaysUntrusted (how do I enable X-S-R-External?).

Here are some of the headers for a message received here that hit on RDNS_NONE:

X-Spam-RelaysUntrusted: [ ip=66.162.193.229 rdns= helo=drone048.ral.icpbounce.com by=spamfilter.netcarrier.com ident= envfrom= intl=0 id=20130918171610649 auth= msa=0 ]

...

Received: from drone048.ral.icpbounce.com ([66.162.193.229])
by spamfilter.netcarrier.com ({671ddfa8-006a-4d35-b7ac-a2829c8915e9})
          via TCP (inbound) with ESMTP id 20130918171610649
          for <a...@eclipse.net>;
          Wed, 18 Sep 2013 17:16:10 +0000

When I execute "host 66.162.193.229":

229.193.162.66.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer drone048.ral.icpbounce.com.

Why does SA think there is no RDNS for 66.162.193.229?

Because there is no hostname within the parentheses in that Received: header. The name outside the parens is the HELO sent by the remote MTA, which is often totally different than the remote MTA's rDNS name.

Look to your MTA; it's either not attempting rDNS lookups or not putting the rDNS results into the Received: headers it generates.

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