RE: RDNS: Reject on fail l

  • From: "Jason Merrique" <j.merrique@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 19:29:17 +0100

Hi John,
 
Not doing something because a company we hate does it, isn't a
particularly good reason. I've noticed that most of the spam we receive
fails an RDNS lookup, and pretty much all the legitimate email we
receive passes.


Is it possible?
 
Cheers,
 
Jason


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        From: John Tolmachoff (Lists)
[mailto:johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
        Sent: 06 May 2004 16:26
        To: [ExchangeList]
        Subject: [exchangelist] RE: RDNS: Reject on fail l
        
        
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        Not practical or wise to do that.

         

        AOL, who acts like a God, does this. All the rest of us mail
server admins hate AOL.

         

        If everyone played by the books, yes, that would be fine.

         

        John Tolmachoff

        Engineer/Consultant/Owner

        eServices For You

         

        -----Original Message-----
        From: Jason Merrique [mailto:j.merrique@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
        Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 5:07 AM
        To: [ExchangeList]
        Subject: [exchangelist] RDNS: Reject on fai l

         

        http://www.MSExchange.org/

        Hi All,

         

        I'd like to configure our mail server to reject email that fails
an RDNS check. We're running Exchange 2003. Is this possible without a
third party program? I've found the option to "Perform reverse DNS
lookup on incoming messages", but not the one to reject messages that
fail it.

         

        Any ideas?

         

        Cheers,

         

        Jason

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