Email list test

[Bob Rasmussen]

Success! Here's what I learned, which may help you not only with traffic 
on the filePro list but with blockage of emails in other places as well:

An email arriving at the list server indicates what IP address it comes 
from. If you resolve that IP (doing reverse DNS), you get a machine name. 
If you resolve that name (using DNS), you should get the same same IP 
address. If this is NOT true, the email list server rejects the post as 
possible spam (I don't know how commonly this rule is applied).

In my case, my website is hosted by a company that doesn't want to mess 
with email services, so I use yet a different company for my mail serving.
This company seemed to not understand this rule, and thus did not set up 
DNS addresses properly. I eventually got them to fix this, and so I was 
once again able to post to the filePro list.

Time will tell whether this resolves some other email problems.

To test your DNS on Windows, you can do (in a CMD window):

    nslookup <ipaddress>

or

    nslookup <hostname>

On Mon, 20 Oct 2014, Bob Rasmussen wrote:

> Can I hear me now?
>
> Regards,
> ....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.
>
> personal e-mail: ras at anzio.com
> company e-mail: rsi at anzio.com
>          voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time)
>            fax: (US) 503-624-0760
>            web: http://www.anzio.com
> street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc.
>                 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9
>                 Portland, OR  97223  USA
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Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

personal e-mail: ras at anzio.com
  company e-mail: rsi at anzio.com
           voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time)
             fax: (US) 503-624-0760
             web: http://www.anzio.com
  street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc.
                  10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9
                  Portland, OR  97223  USA