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How bad is lack of reverse DNS / sending email
Posted by CheekyMonkey on July 16th, 2007


Peter wrote:

You probably have a static DHCP address still within the general dynamic
block. It shouldn't be a problem - unless you sending to AOL or Yahoo/BT

No, not really..... but

AOL are particularly draconian with their anti-spam policy and won't
allow mail from a dynamic range, in you mail server software their is
usually some way of setting exceptions so that *@aol.com can be relayed
through the ISP instead.
Yahoo/BT use a terrible anti-spam method called grey-listing, again if
you send these mails through your ISP you shouldn't get any problems.

You may want want to setup SPF for your domain
(http://www.openspf.org/Introduction) which may up your chances of
getting mail to Yahoo/AOL and other stupid ISPs that implement stupid
anti-spam measures that they are overly cagey about.

Posted by CheekyMonkey on July 16th, 2007


occassionally-confused@nospam.co.uk wrote:
Did it have a generic rDNS entry before? i.e. customer132123.plus.net.
If so, people like Sorbs may have listed it.

What are these anti-spam measures exactly?


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