On Fri, 13 May 2005 21:17:12 -0500 Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 May 2005 19:58:07 -0600 > "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Has anyone had to contact hotmail about this kind of thing? > > > > Mail from my server automatically gets put in the spam folder. My > > server isn't blacklisted as far as I know, and it's a static IP. > > > > My ISP said: > > > > "Does your mail server have a PTR entry in your DNS zone file? > > Without one, many hosts may reject your email. Basically a receiving > > host will do a reverse lookup to make sure that the incoming email > > traces back to the originating (sending) server IP - if it cannot > > resolve it, then the email will be rejected. A PTR is an entry in > > your DNS zone file that is referenced when a server does a reverse > > lookup. " > > > > ... but that doesn't make sense to me. I have different A and MX > > records for the domain, specifically so that I can use a hosted web > > service while serving mail on a different machine. If that weren't > > perfectly legit, why even have the concept of an MX record? > > I'm afraid that I don't have much help in the way of suggestions. I > can say that your server IP has a correct PTR record, though. When I > run "mx bounceswoosh.org" it returns the first mx record as > home.bounceswoosh.org and "host home.bounceswoosh.org" then returns > 66.17.169.80. If you do one more host - this time "host 66.17.169.80" > you will see it returns 'home.bounceswoosh.org' <- the PTR record. Sorry for replying to my own e-mail... I just remembered that I've heard Hotmail does SPF lookups. If you don't have a problem with the concept, you might try adding an spf record for your domain. You can read about how to do it here - http://spf.pobox.com/ and test your spf record here - http://www.dnsstuff.com/pages/spf.htm . HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
