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Re: Filter on postoffice.reston.mci.net

  • From: Danny McPherson
  • Date: Wed Sep 24 14:26:55 1997

Hmmm.. [email protected]?

-danny


> Okay, I give up. Apparently MCI has an SMTP filter either 
> on the domain netins.net or on something in the 167.142.0.0/16 
> network on postoffice.reston.mci.net. 
> 
> [167.142.225.4]$ telnet postoffice.reston.mci.net 25
> Trying 204.70.128.20...
> Connected to postoffice.reston.mci.net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 postoffice.Reston.mci.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.5/8.8.5; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 11:2)
> HELO netins.net
> 250 postoffice.Reston.mci.net Hello [email protected] [167.142.225.4],
> pleased..
> MAIL FROM:<[email protected]>
> 550 Access denied
> QUIT
> 
> I've called the iNOC, they sent me to a 'systems group'. The systems
> group listened carefully and wrote down the error code '550 Access
> denied' before shuffling me off to the Reston office. There, I spoke
> to a very nice sales person, who searched a list of voicemail boxes
> she might forward me to. 
> 
> We pay MCI good money, and find ourselves unable to send mail to
> [email protected] or other MCI addresses. Now I'm stuck in the MCI
> phone maze. If there was an incedent warrenting an SMTP filter, 
> we'd certainly deal with it if notified. I know if that happened 
> with one of our downstream customers, we'd actually contact them 
> before throwing in filters.
> 
> Anyone know who takes care of postoffice.reston.mci.net ?
> 
> Kevin