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Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 16:59 -0700, KevinO wrote:
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>> Craig White wrote:
>>> Cox has an interesting arrangement...if you are a residential user
>>> (DHCP), you can use smtp.west.cox.net. If you are a business user (fixed
>>> ip addresses), you have to call their technical support and get your ip
>>> address permitted to relay via a different smarthost. 
>> Or just send directly from your mail server.
>>
>> If you are on a Cox business account, all services are allowed. I've
>> only ever run into one ISP that rejected one of my IP addresses. An
>> email to Cox got them on the case. Cox technical support contacted the
>> ISP in question (SBC) and straightened them out.
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> My past efforts to get Cox to set a proper reverse dns for the business
> account ip address have failed and many mail servers (including those I
> administer and AOL and ???) refuse to accept e-mail from servers whose
> ehlo/helo doesn't match reverse dns (yeah, this breaks RFC's).
> 
> Thus, while Cox permits you to run your own mail server and doesn't
> restrict port 25 traffic on a business account, without reverse dns, you
> are bound to have mail delivery rejections...and that is what the OP is
> trying to solve.
> 
I guess I've had better luck. Cox has serviced my requests for DNS
changes promptly and correctly.

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KevinO
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