NTL - what have I let myself in for!

Mark Ovens mark at freebsd-uk.eu.org
Fri Jun 2 00:21:30 BST 2000


On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 11:02:19PM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> Mark Ovens wrote:
> 
> > This Message was undeliverable due to the following reason:
> > 
> > Each of the following recipients was rejected by a remote mail server.
> > The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why
> > each recipient was rejected.
> > 
> >     Recipient: <scott.mitchell at mail.com>
> >     Reason:    <scott.mitchell at mail.com>... The IP address 62.253.162.43 is blacklisted. contact your administrator for details.
> > 
> > 
> > Please reply to Postmaster at ntlworld.com
> > if you feel this message to be in error.
> 
> ...
> 
> > Name:    mta03-svc.ntlworld.com
> > Address:  62.253.162.43
> > 
> > parish:/usr/marko{59}% 
> > 
> > NTL appear to be blacklisting their own servers :-O
> 
> More likely it's just a fucking useless error message from an equally
> useless MTA (I bet it runs on NT).

Just check with Netcraft and both ntlworld.com and mail.com are
running Solaris.

> The chances are the error message
> ("The IP address ..") in the message above actually came from the mail
> server handling "mail.com".  Ah, I've just noticed it does say "rejected
> by a remote mail server", but it doesn't bother telling you which one.
> 
> I think it's another time to point out that you get what you pay for.
> You're using an ISP which at least one administrator has blacklisted.
> Not good.
> 
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