spam getting through.

[Michele Neylon : Blacknight Solutions]

On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 20:22 +0100, David While wrote:
> I had this problem with freeuk.net - our sending mail server was not our inbound mail server. They perform a check to see that the mail they have just received came from a machine with an MX record - if not they reject the mail.
>
> I tried to point out the error of their ways but I think it fell on deaf ears.
>

I would have thought that a sane check would be for a PTR not an MX

>
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Mr Michele Neylon
Blacknight Solutions
http://www.blacknight.ie
059 9137101

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