trying to figure out why mail is bouncing

Joshua S. Freeman jfreeman at threeofus.com
Fri Oct 31 08:22:53 EST 2003


alright, but why is it also bouncing when sent using my own smtp server
which, afaik, is not blacklisted anywhere...

On 31 Oct 2003, Bruce Dawson
wrote:

> 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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Joshua S. Freeman
jfreeman at threeofus.com




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