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Date:      Sat, 28 Dec 2002 22:34:28 -0500 (EST)
From:      Fuzzy <fuzzy@pooh.ASARian.org>
To:        "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        lewiz <purple@lewiz.info>, Harry Tabak <htabak@quadtelecom.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.44.0212282231070.18241-100000@pooh.ASARian.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021229002250.GC92510@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

> On Saturday, 28 December 2002 at 22:32:30 +0000, lewiz wrote:
> No, this means that your DNS is flaky.  As somebody observed, this is
> a transient error.  Your MTA retries about every 30 minutes for about
> 5 days, and sooner or later the reverse lookup succeeds, and your mail
> is delivered.

I'm confused. I have an IP that has a lot of forward names,
but the PTR points at the ISPs name. I don't have any trouble
with sendmail sending and receiving internet email. even tho the
PTR returns one of many name for the IP?

fuz


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