No...just that a PTR record exists.
We also require a valid domain for the FROM and Sender address.
We require valid email addresses in the FROM and return-path
We require a non-null sender address unless it is a mailer-daemon/bounce
We require HELO strings
and many other things.
Lots of other antispam filtering packages require these as well. So this
is not anything new.
-Carl
gull(_at_)gull(_dot_)us wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 16:50:39 -0400, Jason Gurtz wrote
On 6/24/2004 13:56, Carl Hutzler wrote:
This is our policy and has been in effect for about a year now or more.
Not really wanting to start a flame here but what about people that use
DNS hosting such as provided by Tucows, easyDNS and the like? These
DNS providers don't support PTR records in an easy way and hence a
lot of the smaller businesses may be unfairly targeted by policies
such as this
(though it would appear that AOL is fairly responsible about it).
Is AOL requiring that your PTR record match the A record, or just requring
that you have *some* kind of PTR record? The former may be expecting a bit
much, but IMHO the latter isn't. Even dynamic IPs usually have some kind of
reverse DNS record associated with them.
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