John Kordash wrote:
mail.bobhoffman.com != bobhoffman.com
Careful here. Email senders have nothing to do with MX records. Email receivers do.
I believe bobhoffman.com is the email sender in this case.
I would doubt this is an issue. Any split in/out mail server is going to have a different host for receipt (MX) than send.
-John
You're right, I was making an assumption I shouldn't have. Namely that there was a single host/ip for both sending and receiving email. Going back to the logs he posted I'd say that assumption was correct in the end.
From the yahoo headers: "Received: from 72.35.68.59 (EHLO mail.bobhoffman.com)"
So his MTA is EHLOing as mail.bobhoffman.com mail.bobhoffman.com resolves to 72.35.68.59 (matches the incoming ip) 72.35.68.59 reverses to bobhoffman.com (which doesn't match the host)
As far as I can tell this will hurt his score. Or am I missing something?