Re: OT email problem

On 8/11/05 16:50, in article 3tc3cbFs2gajU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "michael adams"
<mjadams25@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> "Sacha" <sacha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:BF968311.22F95%sacha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Oh, dear - sorry to top my own msg. but I've just tried to send another
> of
>> the previously bounced emails, having copied pasted and 'composed' anew.
> I
>> got an instant bounce back with the following message:
>> Diagnostic-Code: X-SMTP-Server; host mwall.cyberone.com.au[203.29.91.93]
>> said:
>> 550 Denied. Host (193.252.22.156) listed in RBL (in reply to RCPT TO
>> command)
>>
>> Sorry to be a bore about this but this person needs information and I have
>> no other way of contacting them.
>
> The 550 message is a denial of permission to carry the message.
>
> The person you're trying to contact is on a blacklist on the
> mwall.cyberone.com.au server. Is your customer in Australia ?

>From the address, I'd assumed so but I don't actually know. This person is
trying to track down an ancestor with an association with our house.

> They needn't be but between you and them, your email will be routed
> through a number of differnt servers every time, depending on the
> traffic, and if your recipients ISP is on the RBL on any of those, as
> they are on cyberone.com.au then your email to them will be bounced
> back at that point. They may not be responsible themselves but their
> ISP may have been hacked. However if your email goes via a different
> route another time as it might well do, then you could be lucky.
>
>
> Here are some RBL details -
>
> Short for Realtime Blackhole List, a list of IP addresses whose owners
> refuse to stop the proliferation of spam. The RBL usually lists server
> IP addresses from ISPs whose customers are responsible for the spam and
> from ISPs whose servers are hijacked for spam relay.
>
> http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RBL.html
>

Golly, the things you learn on urg......... ;-) Many thanks!
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

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