I find the following bounce rather funny since the thread was about
rejecting HELOs. I think the following is a bit too strict as it rejects
too much. If the check had simply did a lookup of my domain, animx.eu.org,
it would have found the ip 216.98.75.249. I can't fix this as 1)
dial249.pm3abing3.abingdonpm.naxs.com is not my mail domain (who is going to
type that) and 2) I have no control over the rDNS.
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SMTP error from remote mailer after HELO animx.eu.org:
host mail.weird.com [204.92.254.2]: 501-fatal error while validating 'HELO' host name 'animx.eu.org'.
501-connection rejected from dial249.pm3abing3.abingdonpm.naxs.com remote address [216.98.75.249].
501-Reason given was:
501- No reverse DNS PTR for the remote address [216.98.75.249] has a
501 hostname matching 'animx.eu.org'
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