Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:45:22 -0700 From: Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us> To: Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org> Cc: FreeBSD Gnome <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mr. Hildreth, please fix your broken mail system Message-ID: <1098679522.97730.66.camel@zircon> In-Reply-To: <1098673535.12603.71.camel@compass.straycat.dhs.org> References: <1098482512.97730.10.camel@zircon> <1098673535.12603.71.camel@compass.straycat.dhs.org>
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On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 20:05, Tom McLaughlin wrote: > On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 15:01 -0700, Joe Kelsey wrote: > > Scott Hildreth has a completely broken mail system. Every time I > > respond to one of his messages, I get the following from his system. > > Scott, please fix this obviously broken system: > > > > Hi. This is the qmail-send program at zircon.seattle.wa.us. > > I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following > > addresses. > > This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. > > > > <shildreth@allantgroup.com>: > > 199.67.51.115 does not like recipient. > > Remote host said: 550 5.0.0 <shildreth@allantgroup.com>... broadband > > speakeasy.net blocked due to Spam > > Giving up on 199.67.51.115. > > Are you sure this isn't a problem on your end? I get these all the time > with my qmail because my net block (Comcast) is commonly blacklisted. > Add allantgroup.com to your qmail smtproutes and route all mail to that > domain through another smtp host. It sucks but that's the way it goes > with many domains for a reason. If you happen to find a way to > automatically update smtproutes based on qmail logs please let me know, > I've been looking for something like this. Thanks. I personally find the blacklisting practice full of holes and misconceptions and propagated by administrators who don't really understand what they are doing or are too lazy to do things correctly. I prefer to not deal with people who mess up their mail reception systems due to cluelessness and ignorance. I do not modify smtproutes to try to get around broken systems. I complained about this one because Mr. Hildreth seemed to post a lot to the list and it is annoying to have to deal with the idiotic consequences of the administrators who have misconfigured his corporate domain. /Joe
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