AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ?
Christopher X. Candreva
chris at westnet.com
Wed Dec 3 15:13:31 UTC 2003
Since I'm 99% sure the idea (or stupidity thereof :-) of blocking SMTP
servers without reverse DNS came up here in this discussion, I just ran a
manual queue run to clean out a queue, and saw this come up:
... Connecting to mailin-04.mx.aol.com. via esmtp...220-rly-xn05.mx.aol.com
ESMTP mail_relay_in-xn5.9; Wed, 03 Dec 2003 09:59:55
-0500
220-America Online (AOL) and its affiliated companies do not
220- authorize the use of its proprietary computers and computer
220- networks to accept, transmit, or distribute unsolicited bulk
220- e-mail sent from the internet. Effective immediately: AOL
220- may no longer accept connections from IP addresses which
220 have no reverse-DNS (PTR record) assigned.
>>> EHLO westnet.com
I don't know if this is new -- I don't recall seeing it before, but it
doesn't say they WILL refuse, just they may. If they do start blocking --
this WILL be an operational issue.
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