At 09:25 AM 3/30/00 -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote: > >At 09:20 AM 3/30/00 -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote: > >> >... while talking to mail.perl.com.: > >> >>>> MAIL From:<lvirden@cas.org> > >> ><<< 550 Access denied > >> >554 <perlbug@perl.com>... Service unavailable > >> > >>cas.org was on my old (and revived) list of evil openrelay and/or > >>spamhavens. After the first few hundred pieces of spam at the start > >>of a week, you do something about it. > > >You're a touch over-eager, I think. You're blocking mail from me too and, > >last I knew, nobody'd used my machine as a spam-relay... > >No, I am not blocking mail from sidhe.org. Ummm... yes you are. A quick transcript: [dan@tuatha dan]$ uname -a Linux tuatha.sidhe.org 2.2.5-15 #1 Mon Apr 19 23:00:46 EDT 1999 i686 unknown [dan@tuatha dan]$ telnet mail.perl.com smtp Trying 199.45.135.9... Connected to mail.perl.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 chthon.perl.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:26:34 -0700) HELO tuatha.sidhe.org 250 chthon.perl.com Hello c375238-a.brstl1.ct.home.com [24.8.96.48], pleased tou MAIL FROM:<dan@sidhe.org> 550 Your site is blacklisted as a spam haven. quit 221 chthon.perl.com closing connection Connection closed by foreign host. FWIW, my mail server's hanging off the TCI/AT&T @Home network, which might be part of the problem. (Might want to fix the 550 message some if you can in that case, though) Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai dan@sidhe.org have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunkThread Previous