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E-mail flagged as spam by some domains

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reicherb

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I've registered a new domain and setup a new mail server. The server does NOT allow relaying but some domains are rejecting messages from my domain as spam. The only thing I can think is that I registered something wrong. I registered the domain through Yahoo small business during their $2.99/yr sale and am using zonedit to maintain the DNS records. I created an MX record that says server.domain handles mail for the domain.

What might be wrong?
 
Probably reverse DNS isn't set up correctly or you are on an IP segment defined as a range of addresses for an ISP.

So if the email server is at home, you're SOL. You would have to find a Smarthost to bounce the mail off of (such as your ISP's email servers if they allow it) for this to work.

http://www.dnsstuff.com/ has a SPAM lookup database.
 
I am at home. Can you explain how being on a segment defined as an ISP should make a difference?

The ISP told me I would be able to host my own mail server and gave me a static IP address.
 
If the "Blacklists" have the ISP's range of IP addresses marked as a source of spam, your IP address in that range would then register as a spam address...
 
Originally posted by: Fardringle
If the "Blacklists" have the ISP's range of IP addresses marked as a source of spam, your IP address in that range would then register as a spam address...
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According to dnsstuff.com the range is not flagged as spam by anyone. The address is 69.41.7.XXX.
 
What domains are rejecting your messages? Some private corporations employ their own black and white lists and do not allow any incoming or outgoing email for domains that are not on the white list.
 
The domain is skateblade.net.
I've sent less than 20 total E-mails from the domain.
My messages are marked a spam by yahoo and rejected by verizon.net.
I haven't found anyone else rejecting them yet.
 
Originally posted by: reicherb
I am at home. Can you explain how being on a segment defined as an ISP should make a difference?

The ISP told me I would be able to host my own mail server and gave me a static IP address.
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Then it's probably a reverse DNS issue, which you probably won't be able to resolve. In other words, just because you have server.domain.com pointing to 69.41.7.XXX, doesn't necessarily mean that 69.41.7.XXX will resolve back to server.domain.com. If it's an IP address owned by your ISP, 69.41.7.XXX will probably resolve back to server.ispdomain.com.

Some mail servers will reject mail from servers where the DNS and reverse DNS don't match.

JW
 
Ok, it is a reverse DNS issue. It's returning my ISPs domain.

Before I contact my ISP who told me I can host a mail server to get this resolved, it is technically possible for them to change the reverse lookup for 1 address correct?
 
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