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

I get that when I send mail to AOL users. How would you go about fixing
this.

> "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

Brian D. Mayeur

bmayeur@bmay.net

http://www.bmay.net
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