[aklug] Fwd: Re: ACS spam filters

Hello, intrepid UA WHOIS folk -

Please update reverse DNS for 137.229.184.11 so that the PTR record
exists and matches the corresponding A record.

A well-named mail server will pass SpamAssassin's mail checks.
Otherwise, emails from asimov to ACS and other providers will be
incorrectly marked as spam.

Please forward this to the appropriate party as needed. Thanks!

Royce Williams

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From: Mike Tibor <tibor@tibor.org>
Date: Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:17 PM
Subject: [aklug] Re: ACS spam filters
To: AKLUG <aklug@aklug.org>

On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Kevin Miller wrote:

> I've noticed a number of ak-lug messages being marked as spam. Looking at the headers, they all seem to come from
>
> Received: from asimov.uaa.alaska.edu (unknown [137.229.184.11])
> by lib.uaa.alaska.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B539060F58;
> Tue, 24 Jun 2014 21:30:34 -0800 (AKDT)
>
> which doesn't have a reverse DNS entry. I don't know if the ecartis hosting server has recently changed to 137.229.184.11 from some other server or what, but it might be good to get reverse entries for asimov.uaa.alaska.edu
>
> X-ACS-Spam-Status: yes
> X-ACS-Spam-Score: 5.399 (xxxxx)
> X-ACS-Spam-Tests: RDNS_NONE,ACS_NO_RDNS
> X-ACS-Scanned-By: MD 2.67; SA 3.3.0; spamdefang 1.128

I built asimov.uaa.alaska.edu quite a few years ago, and while it is
hosted by the UAA Library, reverse DNS is tightly controlled by the
UAA campus-wide IT group. Unfortunately they have never paid much
attention to DNS in general. Without knowing the proper contact info
for the UAA IT folks anymore, you could always start with the
technical contact in the whois info for alaska.edu:

   ua-oit-its-ne-dept@alaska.edu

They should at least be able to steer you in the right direction to
the proper UAA contact.

Mike

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Received on Thu Jun 26 05:44:39 2014