Search Again: Re: I am a idiot, no wait, I just don''t know From: Scott Haneda Date: Friday, April 4, 2003 Time: 4:19:17 pm on 04/04/2003 3:38 PM, Len Conrad at LenConrad@MenAndMice.com wrote: > what? > > newgeo.com. mx 10 mx1.newgeo.com. > newgeo.com. mx 20 mx2.newgeo.com. > > ... will work fine, no matter what the PTR hostname is. > > Very few serious mail servers reject mail due to absent PTR. If they do, > it's their problem, not yours. > > Furthermore, almost no, I would say no, mail servers reject mail if the > sending MTA's PTR hostname doesn't have a matching A record for that > hostname. We do this on IMGate/postfix, but ONLY for a few selected > @sender.domains where we know the PTR + A match exists. > > GTE has done the reverse delegation and created the PTR hostnames for his > subnet, so I think he should just relax and work on other stuff. > > Len Your looking up the wrong stuff, newgeo.com is not the domain in question, try casarta.com ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 http://www.newgeo.com Fax: 313.557.5052 scott@newgeo.com Novato, CA U.S.A.

Messages In This Thread: Re: I am a idiot, no wait, I just don''t know by Men & Mice Support on Apr 4, 2003 at 3:24:03 pm Re: I am a idiot, no wait, I just don''t know by Len Conrad on Apr 4, 2003 at 3:38:46 pm Re: I am a idiot, no wait, I just don''t know by Scott Haneda on Apr 4, 2003 at 4:19:17 pm Re: I am a idiot, no wait, I just don''t know by Len Conrad on Apr 4, 2003 at 4:24:20 pm Re: I am a idiot, no wait, I just don''t know by Men & Mice Support on Apr 4, 2003 at 4:52:21 pm Re: I am a idiot, no wait, I just don''t know by Scott Haneda on Apr 4, 2003 at 5:04:31 pm Re: I am a idiot, no wait, I just don''t know by Len Conrad on Apr 4, 2003 at 5:41:26 pm Re: I am a idiot, no wait, I just don''t know by Men & Mice Support on Apr 4, 2003 at 10:36:26 pm