RE: RES: RES: Email oddity

["Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Of course, I meant, BAXTER.x.x.net below, not X.Org.  The Mail Server is the
point of contention here.



Hi, John:

Direct answer of your question about "what does it mean..."
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/Rules/RDNS_NONE

Also, here's some excellent reading material.
http://tcnoc.com/faq/#REPORTSPAM  In particular, use CTRL+F to find rDNS,
and read each point about that.  Seems very clear and concise.

Most Windoze installations include nslookup in the standard installation.
So in a DOS box, do this:

nslookup X.org (where X.org is the unobfuscated value from below).

A result will come back like:
Name: x.org
Address: 1.2.3.4


Now, type nslookup 1.2.3.4
The result will include a canonical name (maybe like
4.3.2.1-something-something.isp.com)

Now let's look up the canonical name. Type nslookup
4.3.2.1-something-something.isp.com

The resulting address(es) should *include* or *be* 1.2.3.4.

Let us know if those match.  If they do not, then the PTR record is not set
up correctly, or the updates haven't made their way back to you.  If they
do, then the problem is elsewhere, or the PTR updates have not reached
COX.NET's internals.

Also, if you have anyone with AOL.COM or COMCAST.NET that you can experiment
with ... do your messages from the i reach them?


Dennis Lovelady
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
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> This looks better.  But, I think I was always able to receive emails 
> from BAXTER.  Still >seems< to have rDNS issue, according to the spam 
> scanner.  But, the top now has the URL and the IP, below (slightly 
> scrubbed).  I tried sending an email from work using my work email as 
> sender, to a Cox account.  No reject error, so far.  So what is with 
> the last line about no rDNS?  Also says something about a missing
> message id header.   I am going to look at the headers closely on
> Monday.
>
> John McKee
>
>
>
> Return-Path: 	<jmckee@xxxxx>
> Received: 	from mail7.wildflower.net (mail7.wildflower.net
> [24.249.116.47])by mail8.wildflower.net (IceWarp 10.0.7) with ESMTP id
> YHZ23405 for <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Sat, 14 May 2011 21:10:05 -0500
> X-ASG-Debug-ID: 	1305425408-285b27820001-bZofqT
> Received: 	from BAXTER.X.X.NET ([1.1.1.1]) by mail7.wildflower.net
> with ESMTP id Xh88meHhVz2Hh67X for <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Sat, 14 
> May 2011 21:10:08 -0500 (CDT)
> X-Barracuda-Envelope-From: 	jmckee@xxxxx
> X-Barracuda-Apparent-Source-IP: 	1.1.1.1
> Sender: 	jmckee@xxxxx
> Date: 	Sat, 14 May 2011 21:09:42 -0500
> From: 	John McKee <jmckee@xxxxx>  [+]
> MIME-Version: 	1.0
> To: 	John McKee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  [+]
> Subject: 	Test email 2108
> Content-Type: 	multipart/mixed; boundary="--PART.BOUNDARY.1"
> X-ASG-Orig-Subj: 	Test email 2108
> X-Barracuda-Connect: 	UNKNOWN[1.1.1.1]
> X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 	1305425408
> X-Barracuda-URL: 	http://24.249.116.47:8000/cgi-mod/mark.cgi
> X-Virus-Scanned: 	by bsmtpd at wildflower.net
> X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 	0.24
> X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: 	No, SCORE=0.24 using per-user scores of
> TAG_LEVEL=2.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=1000.0 KILL_LEVEL=3.0 
> tests=MISSING_MID, RDNS_NONE
> X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: 	Code version 3.2, rules version
> 3.2.2.63764Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- 
> --------
> -------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.14 
> MISSING_MID Missing Message-Id: header 0.10 RDNS_NONE Delivered to 
> trusted network by a host with no rDNS
> Message-Id: 	<20110515021009.0BBEF1196E7A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>