Hi Brian.
What IP address does your mail server use to send mail? Does it reverse to
a legal name for that server?
John
John Souvestre - Southern Star - (504) 888-3348 - www.sstar.com
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From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net] On Behalf
Of Brian D. Mayeur
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 3:02 AM
To: nolug@joeykelly.net
Subject: 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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