RE: email address "spoofed"

["Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh]" <aditya.deshmukh () online gateway technolabs net>]

>   A great many ISPs who hand out addresses via DHCP maintain a
> set of generic reverse-DNS entries for their scopes.  On the one
> hand, this greatly diminishes the value of this lookup as an
> anti-spam measure; on the other hand, it avoids the particular
> problem you describe.

the problem is that my address when forward resolved is different from reverse resolution.


>   A more effective measure employed by several ISPs is to block
> outbound SMTP at their borders, except for their own officially
> sanctioned email server(s).  This cuts the propagation of viruses
> with their own SMTP engine, and use of spam-sending packages with
> their own, to virtually nil, and if they don't turn on the reverse
> check, they can probably (*safely*) avoid setting up reverse 
> records for their DHCP scopes.

this would work only if the isp allowed any and every email from any domain to pass through, that is why i run myy own 
mail server with the A and MX recored pointing to my smtp  server address 


>   If your ISP allows arbitrary port 25 traffic to the world, but 
> won't set up reverse ranges on its DNS servers, maybe you should
> evaluate some of their competitors....


ther competitors are worse, atleast this one has a very responcive help desk and good people at the phone and not some 
script monkeys, one call is what it takes to resolve any  complicated matter.



-aditya


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