[TriLUG] Re: AOL up to it's old tricks

[Lance A. Brown]

Dan Monjar wrote:

> Also, as of 10/1 apparently, AOL is doing a reverse DNS lookup on the 
> sending SMTP box.  ALL mail from my company to AOL was bouncing until 
> I could get the reverse RR in place.

That is a fairly typical anti-spam tactic.  Well-configured mail relays 
*should* have PTR records defined for their IP addresses.

--[Lance]

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