North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Blocked by msn.com MX, contact for MSN.COM postmaster ?
Have you tried [email protected] maybe [email protected] (they could forward you).. They are quite responsive (hotmail, abuse), at least from a hotmail address :). mark -- Mark Segal Director, Data Services Futureway Communications Inc. Tel: (905)326-1570 > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark E. Mallett [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: January 29, 2003 5:44 PM > To: Miquel van Smoorenburg > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Blocked by msn.com MX, contact for MSN.COM postmaster ? > > > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:49:16AM +0000, Miquel van > Smoorenburg wrote: > > > > I found out that our outgoing SMTP servers have been blocked by the > > msn.com MXes. In a nasty way, too -- no SMTP error, the TCP > connection > > is simply closed by them immidiately after establishing it. > We're not > > listed on any RBL/DNSBL and have an active abuse desk. > > > > I mailed [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], but > > didn't get a reply from any of them. Does anyone here know > who to talk > > to ? > > I'd be interested in knowing what you find out. We observed > the same thing a while ago from one of our mail servers-- but > just one. Connection drops immediately, no clue given as to > why. However, from another mail server just a few IP numbers > away (in the same /24), the connection goes through just > fine. The workaround was obviously to configure the first > mail server to relay mail for msn.com via the second one, and > to try to get Microsoft to tell us what was up. No luck on > that last front though. > > -mm- > |