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Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian
Date:  
To: James P. Roberts
CC: exim-users, stunnel-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Example of legit email rejected by testing on reverse IP lookup
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 08:24, James P. Roberts wrote:
> All I can do is ask MTA admins to not reject email just because the
> reverse DNS hostname doesn't match. In a lot of perfectly legitimate
> cases, it will not match. There are plenty of other (better) ways to
> block spam, without blocking legitimate email traffic.


It is not a match on reverse dns mismatch.

It means - you are in a customer IP block, most likely dynamic IPs.

So, he is asking you to set up your exim to smarthost through your
provider's mailserver.

> <h-64-105-159-234.PHLAPAFG.covad.net[64.105.159.234]>:
>     Client host rejected: mail from domains with generic/dialup/DHCP
> addresses is not accepted - contact your ISP for support


    srs