RE: earthlink users problem

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From: Douglas Boyd [MSFT] (dboyd_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/01/04 

Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 23:16:09 GMT

RP

The best way to resolve the problem is to setup a SMTP connector to relay
email through your ISP's SMTP server. That way the mail appears to come
from them instead of your server. They are attempting to do a reverse
lookup on your domain and are unable to resolve the domain name to your
server.

I hope this helps

Doug Boyd
dboyd@online.Microsoft.com

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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