RE: A Litle Advice Needed

So long as the reverse dns matches the server name it realy does not matter.   
And that only matters if it is sending out bound as well.   We use short names 
to avoid phoneticly spelling out longer names to users over the phone.
 
That being said a random string of characters for a name may well increase the 
chances of mail being tagged as spam.
 
John 
 
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From: Taylor, George [mailto:gtaylor@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thu 12/29/2005 10:31 AM
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I've always went with the machine in the DMZ being called MAIL.COMPANYNAME.COM, 
no matter what the servers "real" name is or what it's function is, ie. mail 
forwarder, spamfilter, zix server, etc..
 
 
George
 

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From: Rich Gallo [mailto:RGallo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 8:16 AM
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Hello All!

 

Does anyone think it is a good idea (or best practice for that matter) to have 
your outside (DMZ) spam filter SMTP server have a name on the MX record that 
doesn't allude to what it actually does.  For example, let's say I name the 
server SPAMFILTER and set my MX records accordingly, is that a bad idea?  Does 
it really make a difference, as the type of DNS record it is tells people what 
the server is anyway?  What are your thoughts?  What do you do for your 
organization?  Does anyone from Microsoft have any best practices on this?

 

Thanks!!

 

Rich

 

 

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