On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 05:21:13PM +0900, J. David Beutel wrote:
>
> Since the beginning of August, I haven't been able to send email
> from my home machine (on YahooBB) to my keitai (on ezweb.ne.jp). I
> can't even connect to AU's SMTP server; it just times out. This
> problem has been constant for over a month now.
>
> Does anyone else have the same problem? Is my IP on some kind of
> blacklist?
Yes, there are blacklists of dynamically-assigned IP addresses. These
are intended to block spam from throw-away accounts and from hijacked
PCs.
> I have no problems sending anywhere else. I have lots of relay
> rejects in my mail log, so I'm definitely not an open relay, and I'm
> not in the MAPS RBL. Also, it worked fine until August. And I can
> send via mail.yahoo.com, so AU is not backlisting all IPs.
Try aol.com - they block dynamic IP addresses now.
> Note that I'm not going through YahooBB's SMTP server, because it is
> limited to YahooBB email accounts.
Ach, that's really stupid. You could include a Reply-To address,
although that often gets replaced by mailing list managers.
Your other option is to buy email service from another company.
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Ben Hutchings
The program is absolutely right; therefore, the computer must be wrong.
Received on Fri Sep 12 13:32:04 2003