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Old 06-12-2015, 11:47 PM   #39
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Originally Posted by Thalagyrt View Post
It appears that the forum is sending with a envelope-from domain of www1.camaro5.com which doesn't exist in DNS. 99% of spam filtering solutions out there just outright drop email with a non-resolving envelope-from domain because legitimate mail should be sent from a host that exists in DNS, and this would explain why email's not making it to a lot of people, myself included.

A quick solution would be to add an A record for www1.camaro5.com, since presently that doesn't resolve:

eldenser:~ jriley$ host www1.camaro5.com
Host www1.camaro5.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

Also a likely contributor to issues once the forward DNS issue is fixed is the default reverse DNS record:

eldenser:~ jriley$ host 75.126.222.110
110.222.126.75.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer 75.126.222.110-static.reverse.softlayer.com.

That's going to score negatively on most spam filters as your from domain doesn't match up with your reverse DNS - would recommend changing it to www1.camaro5.com as well, which whoever owns the Softlayer account can do pretty easily in the SL control panel.

Current situation:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/66gss3emph...57.32.png?dl=0

Previously when email was being delivered to everyone your envelope-from was coming through as @camaro5.com, which exists in DNS:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ovx2vaop5l...03.38.png?dl=0
That looks like a lot of techno-babble to me. However, I don't know very much about anything regarding webdesign so I can't distinguish a word-salad from a legit explanation. I'm going to assume that you know what you're talking about & hope that our admin understands perfectly. If this helps us solve our e-mail issues, I'm sure that you'll be entitled to a free 1 month membership to the entire Camaro5 network*

*includes Camaro5, Camaro6, and Corvette7 websites, restricted to regular member access only (non moderator, non sponsor), offer not valid in Quebec for some reason
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