trying to figure out why mail is bouncing

[Bruce Dawson]

optonline is a notorious spam site. 

On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 22:20, Joshua S. Freeman wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I live in NY now... I still have a server on my network in Boston and
> that's what my wife and I use for *receiving* our mail.
> 
> My wife uses outlook for email on her mac laptop and uses optonline.net
> (cablevision), our ISP here at home in NY, and their smtp server(s) for
> outgoing mail.
> 
> I am writing this using pine sshed into my server there in Boston and
> using the localhost as an smtp server.. the ISP here on this machine is
> gnaps.com (global naps in quincy, MA).
> 
> Below is a message I tried to send to my wife's assistant who is obviously
> using Verizon....
> 
> All messages that we send to her, no matter which smtp server we use, are
> bouncing.  She reports that other mail is getting to her just fine.  What
> is it about our setup that's making Verizon's servers reject mail sent by
> both MY smtp server AND optonline.net's smtp servers?
> 
> TIA for any insights.
> 
> J.
> 
> 
> -- 
> ------
> Joshua S. Freeman
> jfreeman at threeofus.com
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:13:18 -0500
> From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON at localhost.localdomain>
> To: jfreeman at threeofus.com
> Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable
> 
> The original message was received at Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:12:41 -0500
> from jfreeman at localhost
> 
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <deanna.jackson3 at verizon.net>
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> ... while talking to relay.verizon.net.:
> >>> MAIL From:<jfreeman at threeofus.com> SIZE=456
> <<< 550 You are not allowed to send mail:sc019.verizon.net
> 554 <deanna.jackson3 at verizon.net>... Service unavailable
> ----

The above usually means that port 25 was blocked or at least didn't
allow the connection.

> Reporting-MTA: dns; localhost.localdomain
> Arrival-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:12:41 -0500
> 
> Final-Recipient: RFC822; deanna.jackson3 at verizon.net
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.0.0
> Remote-MTA: DNS; relay.verizon.net
> Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 You are not allowed to send mail:sc019.verizon.net
> Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:13:18 -0500
> ----
> 

I would call verizon on this one - it appears that they're blocking
outgoing connections too.

> From: Joshua S. Freeman <jfreeman at threeofus.com>
> To: deanna.jackson3 at verizon.net
> Subject: test
> Date: 30 Oct 2003 22:12:41 -0500
> 
> Hi Deanna.. I'm trying to see why Monica's mail is not getting to you.
> 
> J.
> 
> -- 
> ------
> Joshua S. Freeman
> jfreeman at threeofus.com
> 

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