[plug] Blacklisted mail server?

[Adrian Woodley]

gpearson at iinet.net.au hey...
Are you sick of having 'net access or something?

On Wed, 03 May 2006 19:06:08 +0800, Daniel Pearson <gpearson at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 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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Adrian Woodley
Diskworld Network Services
www.Diskworld.com.au