[plug] Blacklisted mail server?

[Daniel Pearson]

Haha

Bad idea ;)

Adrian Woodley wrote:
> 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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