[Gllug] How can I make sure my email is not treated as spam?

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 14:37, Doug Winter wrote:
> On Sat 01 Mar Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > I then changed the name of the box to mailrelay.myorganisation.org.uk
> > (names have been changed, but myorganisation.org.uk is a real domain,
> > but mailrelay is not a "real" subdomain).
> > 
> > This seemed to work for many of the mail relays that were previously
> > bouncing the emails, but not all.
> 
> Some (broken IMO) sites look for an entry in the reverse DNS when they
> get an SMTP connection, and reject you if you don't have one, or even if
> the forward and reverse DNS don't match.  For all email to get through
> you need to ensure your machine has a proper entry in the reverse DNS.
> 
> The other option is to use your ISPs outgoing mailserver as a smarthost.
> Obviously it's better to avoid depending on it if you can, but this is a
> straightforward solution.
> 
How do I do that?

Adrian


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