[NBLUG/talk] I'm not spammer

Rob Orsini orsini at sonic.net
Fri Sep 5 16:08:00 PDT 2003


At 05:27 PM 9/4/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 05:07:35PM -0700, Rob Orsini wrote:
>} I have configured a mail server on on domain (call it: example.com) using
>} Exim.  I send mail to my yahoo account and it gets tossed in the 'bulk'
>} directory by their spam filter.  Below is the full headers from a test
>} message. I can get into my exim config file settings but I first want to
>} know what about the headers is causing the trouble. Can anyone list any
>} reasons this my mail is getting marked as spam?
>}
>} Received: from cypress.orsini.us (adsl-64-142-13-100.sonic.net
>} [64.142.13.100])
>}       by b.mx.sonic.net (8.12.9/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h84NqIOC023852
>}       for <orsini at sonic.net>; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 16:52:18 -0700
>
>Some places will call it spam because of the "adsl-number" in the reverse
>DNS.  Some places will call it spam if the reverse DNS doesn't match the
>name you give (cypress.orsini.us does not equal
>adsl-64-142-13-100.sonic.net).
>
>Many would say this is overly broad filtering, and I would agree, but
>that's the way some places are operating.
>
>Sonic will setup reverse DNS for you for a one time fee, so your reverse
>DNS could be cypress.orsini.us or orsini.us (orsini.us would be better,
>then configure Exim to send the mail without the machine name on the
>front).  I don't see the web page in the member tools, you probably need to
>call them.  It doesn't matter if you bought orsini.us thru them or somebody
>else.

I'm having sonic change the dns reverse look up to 
mail.orsinidesigns.com.  Does that host name of my box have to be mail now? 




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