[plug] Blacklisted mail server?

[Adrian Woodley]

Michael,

I've looked into your problem a bit more - our mail filters will generally drop connections from IPs listed as dynamic (as yours is). The easiest way around this is to use your ISP's mail server as a "smart host". Like you, I use Amnet (ex-Arachnet) at home and my mail server sends everything through mail.amnet.net.au. I also do this for a couple of clients I used to look after and have had no problems with any of these systems.

Regards,
Adrian Woodley
Network Administrator
iiNet

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.
> 
>  
> 
> 
-- 
Adrian Woodley

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