[plug] Blacklisted mail server?

Daniel Pearson gpearson at iinet.net.au
Wed May 3 19:06:08 WST 2006


You are friendly iiNet admin? ;P

Adrian Woodley wrote:
> G'day Mike,
>
> What's your IP address? I should be able to find out whats happening on our mail filters.
>
> Adrian,
> you're friendly iiNet Admin.
>
> On Wed, 3 May 2006 15:44:26 +0800, "Michael L. Benjamin" <mike.benjamin at clarinet.com.au> wrote:
>   
>>  
>> Hi there,
>>  
>> We have a problem with the iinet mailserver rejecting connections from
>> an IP address of ours. This IP was blacklisted briefly by SBL-XBL
>> (Spamhaus) for reasons 
>> unknown It was initally listed with the CBL which automatically spread
>> the entry to SBL-XBL before I terminated it.
>>  
>> We removed it as soon as it was discovered. This was a couple of weeks
>> back now and we do not appear to have been re-listed.
>>  
>> Here's the interesting bit, if I telnet over to mail.iinet.net.au 25
>> from the machine, it returns a 554 Transaction Failed and immediately
>> closes the connection down.
>>  
>> We have contacted iinet to try and rectify this situation but it still
>> hasn't been resolved, and during the initial conversation they swore up
>> and down that it was a configuration fault at our end with our mailserve
>> (yeah right), and were decidedly unhelpful. Our domain is not hosted
>> with iinet etc.
>>  
>> Does anyone have any suggestions, is there anything I can do, or am I at
>> the mercy of iinet support to fix their act up?
>>  
>> Mike.
>>
>>  
>>
>>
>>     
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