[aklug] Re: ACS spam filters

Might help if I didn't typo the email address. :-) Resending.

Royce

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 5:43 AM, Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org> wrote:
> 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
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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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