Some errors in /var/log/maillog

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2003, Swapana Ghosh wrote:
>Thanks you very much.
>
>-Swapna
>
>> 
>> Reverse lookup failed?  the zone for xxx.xxx.xx.35 (and others) doesn't 
>> have any PTR records for that ip or the zone does not exist on any dns 
>> server.

BTW:  This is an excellent criteria for spam blocking, particularly since
AOL is now doing it which makes it much easier to tell an ISP to get their
sh*t together and fix their DNS.  If an ISP can't get the rDNS configured
for the mail servers, they probably shouldn't be running them.

Bill
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