[wplug] reverse DNS

[Lance Tost]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Drew from Zhrodague wrote:
> > Does using comcast's outgoing client SMTP help over come this (e.g.
> > sendmail SmartHost setting)? So your mail dosent appear to come from a
> > dynamic IP mail server?
> 
> 	This I don't think helped me when I tried this, but I don't seem
> to remember any details. A relay-host would be a nice thing for me, since
> I do host from home.

It should help.  If not, that means everyone that has comcast and does 
things the "standard way" (webmail, pop, imap, whatever) can't send mail 
to the same places that you can't.

Actually, looking at the headers, your ip does have a reverse dns entry... 
so I doubt that's your problem.  However, here's some info from 
Spamassassin concerning your mail:

X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_SORBS 
        autolearn=no version=2.63

Looking at http://www.dnsbl.us.sorbs.net/cgi-bin/lookup, I see that it has 
you in the "dynamic ip" database.  Many militant mail administrators block 
all mail from dynamic IPs.  Get yourself a static IP.

BTW, I don't agree with blocking mail from all dynamic IPs... and I don't 
believe that blacklist databases alone should be used to determine whether 
or not to block something.  That's why I like tools such as Spamassassin 
and Puremessage... they take this into consideration but don't make 
decisions solely on the blacklist databases.

-- 
Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com>