Blocking IP address

[Dr. Jeffrey Race]

As I read this the mail was blocked not because of spamming by Sarras
but because the IP address has been blacklisted, possibly from MAPS
or ORBS.   There is a procedure to get on and get off the list, and
your history will be documented if you are on it.   Go to:

 <http://mail-abuse.org/>

I have dealt with a number of people at this site and they are always
reasonable.    It may be some mistake.

If you can't get through to <postmaster> try <root>.    If that fails,
do a lookup for the owner.   If that fails, run a trace route and contact
their upstream.

FYI it is not at all unusual for postmaster to be blocked or even not
enabled.  I run into it frequently.

Please report back what you find as I am sure it would interest other
list members.  This kind of communication breakdown will become more
important as time passes.

Jeffrey Race

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 07:52:08 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

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>    Whomever Alexander is going through for mail is being stupid.  Blocking
>postmaster which according to RFC is /ALWAYS/ supposed to be open for
>administrative messages.  Always.  I even tried from my work account and they
>were doing the same crap there, blocking postmaster for spamming.  From an
>internal company mail server that is locked down tight.  :(
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>From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@rpglink.com>
>To: grey@dmiyu.org <grey@dmiyu.org>
>Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2000, 7:45:13 AM
>Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
>
>This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
>
>A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
>recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
>
>  postmaster@ap.univie.ac.at:
>    SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<postmaster@ap.univie.ac.at>:
>    host merlin.ap.univie.ac.at [131.130.11.52]:
>    550 On Blacklist (rule I2-20) !\r
>    421 No way. You should better give it up spamming us.