On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 04:25:45PM -0600, Marc Skinner wrote:
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> most SMTP serves do a reverse DNS check on incoming SMTP servers.  so if
> your server is going out an ip address that doesn't have its RDNS set to
> mail.buffalo.k12.mn.us - i would guess that might be a good place to
> start.  it is supposed to cut down on spam, in reality, i think it just
> cuts down email being set out from mis-configured email servers.

On the e-mail servers that I admin, I get 55-60% connections from
servers without reverse DNS.  99% of those connections are delivering
SPAM.  This data is from December 2007.

Cheers,
florin

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