[vox-tech] smtp question - blocked ip

[Peter Jay Salzman]

thanks, steven

that's a good link to know -- i'll definitely keep it in mind!

and from now on, i'll think twice before sending out spam.  i honestly
didn't think anyone would mind some nigeria scam emails...  ;)

the thing that sucks is that i can understand blocking out a PPPoE
netblock, but blocking out the entire netblock space of pacbell.net is a
bit... heavy handed!

this whole experience has left me feeling ... dirty!   :(

pete


begin Steven Peck <speck@blkmtn.org> 
> The reciever is setup to use a block list by ip address.  So, lookup your MX
> and/or IP Address in a lookup site.  
> For all potential email block/spam problems, I turn to 
> www.dnsstuff.com
> 
> The MX for dirac.org is 'mail.dirac.org'
> The IP is 64.164.47.8'
> 
> Looking up the IP Address at DNSStuff gets you
> http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=64.164.47.8
> 
> Your IP is listed in spambag.org's email blocklist
> http://www.spambag.org/cgi-bin/spambag?mailfrom=pacbell
> 
> Pete, you spammer you. :) j/k
> Best of luck getting off of it seeing as it is a PacBell IP netblock.
> Your best hope is if 'netease.net' can whitelist your ip address.
> 
> -sp
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Jay Salzman [mailto:p@dirac.org]
> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 8:51 AM
> To: vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
> Subject: [vox-tech] smtp question - blocked ip
> 
> 
> can someone give me a more useful description of the problem here?  who
> is blocking whom?  it sounds like my MTA rejected sending email to
> netease, but ORDB and tcp wrappers for exim (which i use) should block
> incoming mail from spammers, not outgoing mail to spammers.
> 
> at least, i'm pretty sure about that...
> 
> pete
> 
> sorry for terse message, but i'm still on a 14.4.....
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@dirac.org>
> -----
> 
> From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@dirac.org>
> To: p@dirac.org
> Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
> Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 08:42:07 -0800
> 
> This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim).
> 
> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
> 
>   cdavis@netease.net
>     SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<cdavis@netease.net>:
>     host mx02.netease.net [64.7.232.14]: 554
> <adsl-64-164-47-8.dsl.scrm01.pacbell.net[64.164.47.8]>:
>     Client host rejected: ACL IP Blocked; (5.7.1) Policy Violation 1205

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