[geeks] SPAM and me

David Selders david.selders at malleable.org
Fri Feb 13 12:20:18 CST 2004


On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 01:01:51PM -0500, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> AOL is flagging email sent from the address as spam, but they aren't
> actually rejecting it.  Does anyone see anything in the headers that
> might suggest why?  I send the mail from on jdboyd.net (i.e. from mutt
> actually running on the machine), and jdboyd.net is registered in DNS as
> the mx for jdboyd.net.
> 
> Also, this is a new thing.  I previously sent email to that AOL user
> before without it being flagged.
> _______________________________________________
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Well I'm no email expert, but it looks like your MX record points to a
machine at 209.178.231.92.  Do you have the reverse lookup setup
correctly?  It looks like in the headers you don't so maybe AOL is
flagging it becuase the reverse lookup doesn't match the forward.

-- 
David



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