Re: [Nolug] running a mail server with a Cox account

"John Souvestre" <johns@sstar.com> writes:

AOL is definitely one. And it's been that way for quite a while. Actually they
require the domain to match and their be a forward lookup if forward does not
match reverse.

ie. if you call yourself mail.scottharney.com and reverse lookup produce
attitude.scottharney.com, aol will forward the mail if attitude.scottharney.com
exists. But if you call your mailserver mail.scottharney.com and your
reverse lookup comes back as ipmy-ip-add-ress.no.no.cox.net they'll dump your
mail silently without error to you or the sender.

http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/dropped-mail.html

> Hi Scott.
>
> Yes, for a VERY, VERY few mail servers. But I don't believe that AOL is
> one. From what I learned they do require that reverse DNS produces
> something, but it doesn't have to match the forward lookup.
>
> John
>
> John Souvestre - Southern Star - (504) 888-3348 - www.sstar.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Probably not necessary since you're relaying through Cox but if you want
> to talk to some mail servers, you need to set up MX records in DNS AND have
> forward lookup = reverse lookup (AOL does this).
>
>
>
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