[Elecraft] my ISP sucks

[Eric Swartz WA6HHQ - Elecraft]

This is exactly what is happening. The correct solution is to notify the ISP 
in question and get them to properly configure their SMTP mail server to 
properly identify itself in your mail headers for reverse lookups.

qth.net was forced to add this check to stem the flood of SPAM hitting the 
lists (most of which gets bounced to me as list Elecraft list manager).

73, Eric   WA6HHQ
Elecraft list moderator

Rich McCabe wrote:

> More than likely it has nothing to do with your actual reply address.
> 
> Some ISP's, Hosting companies, etc. use a reverse lookup process to validate
> mail servers. They do this in an effort to reduce Spam. Sometimes your
> actual mail server (not necessarily your domain name) can be black listed or
> not have the reverse lookup stuff configured properly.
> 
> I know we had one of our servers setup without the "reverse" information
> configuration and anytime another local company got mail from this one
> server it would bounce. All other mailservers were fine. Since you can send
> from Webmail, this is probably the case. This is a big problem and not one
> you can solve easily unless you can configure your mail program to use
> another SMTP server.

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <carlstrode@netscape.net>

>>All of a sudden, I am unable to send messages to the elecraft list because
>> my ISP cannot be validated by the mail reflector.
> 
>>Hence, I am attempting to send and recieve mail via Netscape webmail.