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Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail

  • From: Brian Bruns
  • Date: Tue Oct 21 18:13:10 2003

I'm getting nothing but timeouts at this point to any of att's mail servers.
Nothing going through at all.
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Brian Bruns
The Summit Open Source Development Group
Open Solutions For A Closed World / Anti-Spam Resources
http://www.sosdg.org
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marshall Eubanks" <[email protected]>
To: "Mike Tancsa" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail


>
> Here is my experience (names are changed to protect...) :
>
> Failed to deliver to '[email protected]'
> SMTP module(domain att.com) reports:
>   message text rejected by ckmsi2.att.com:
>   550 5.7.1 Your message was rejected as possible spam. Please call your
> AT&T contact. [3]
>
> Failed to deliver to '[email protected]'
> SMTP module(domain att.com) reports:
>   message text rejected by ckmsi2.att.com:
>   550 5.7.1 Your message was rejected as possible spam. Please call your
> AT&T contact. [3]
>
> Failed to deliver to '[email protected]'
> SMTP module(domain att.com) reports:
>   message text rejected by ckmsi2.att.com:
>   550 5.7.1 Your message was rejected as possible spam. Please call your
> AT&T contact. [3]
>
> Failed to deliver to '[email protected]'
> SMTP module(domain att.com) reports:
>   message text rejected by ckmsi2.att.com:
>   550 5.7.1 Your message was rejected as possible spam. Please call your
> AT&T contact. [3]
>
> Failed to deliver to '[email protected]'
> SMTP module(domain att.com) reports:
>   message text rejected by ckmsi2.att.com:
>   550 5.7.1 Your message was rejected as possible spam. Please call your
> AT&T contact. [3]
>
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 05:46 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Wow, this sounds like a pretty extreme shotgun approach. (or is it
> > April 1st somewhere).  Is AT&T going to make this whitelist publicly
> > available ?  Perhaps if there was some global white list that everyone
> > could consult against, it might be a little more useable.  Still, what
> > do you do about multi-stage relays ?
> >
> >         ---Mike
> >
> >