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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