[ale] My mail ends up as SPAM

[James Taylor]

When I check the mx records for outpostsentinel.com, I get an entirely different result from the reverse lookup of 65.254.217.214.
Either there is something screwy with DNS records somewhere, or you mx records are configured wrong.  My filter would definitely not like you mail.
-jt

<<>> DiG 9.5.0-P2 <<>> outpostsentinel.com mx
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 51060
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;outpostsentinel.com.           IN      MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
outpostsentinel.com.    86400   IN      MX      10 mx00-dom.earthlink.net.
outpostsentinel.com.    86400   IN      MX      10 mx01-dom.earthlink.net.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
outpostsentinel.com.    86400   IN      NS      DNS3.earthlink.net.
outpostsentinel.com.    86400   IN      NS      DNS1.earthlink.net.
outpostsentinel.com.    86400   IN      NS      DNS2.earthlink.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
DNS2.earthlink.net.     172800  IN      A       207.217.77.12
DNS3.earthlink.net.     172800  IN      A       207.217.120.13

;; Query time: 649 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.254.9#53(192.168.254.9)
;; WHEN: Wed Feb 18 08:45:07 2009
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 189

jtaylor at jabberwocky:~> dig -x 65.254.217.214

; <<>> DiG 9.5.0-P2 <<>> -x 65.254.217.214
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 48709
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;214.217.254.65.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
214.217.254.65.in-addr.arpa. 600 IN     PTR     support.opsdc.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
217.254.65.in-addr.arpa. 86400  IN      NS      ns1.amerihosting.com.
217.254.65.in-addr.arpa. 86400  IN      NS      ns2.amerihosting.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.amerihosting.com.   14400   IN      A       65.254.214.150
ns2.amerihosting.com.   14400   IN      A       65.254.214.151

;; Query time: 500 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.254.21#53(192.168.254.21)
;; WHEN: Wed Feb 18 08:46:22 2009
 
 

James Taylor
The East Cobb Group, Inc.
678-697-9420
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
http://www.eastcobbgroup.com






>>> Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> 2/18/2009 08:21 AM >>> 
I've been dealing with an issue for a while and it seems as more and 
more people use spam filtering it
is causing me headache.

Mail that I send people ends up in their spam folder and I can not 
figure out why.  I can not even
send email to yahoo users for this reason.

I'm assuming it may have to do with the way I have things configured.  
Our mail server is smtp.opsdc.com
at 65.254.217.214.  However when we sendmail we send mail  using domain 
outpostsentinel.com.  Could
this be the root cause?

Chris
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