[ale] Problems with Mindspring/Earthlink mail servers & Sourceforge?

[Dow Hurst]

I've noticed a degradation of email service over the weekend at home with
inability to get a connection established with the mail servers. Â My DSL
PPPoE connection was fine. Â I had connectivity and DNS no problem. Â Only
the mail servers seemed cranky.

Here at KSU some problems have been cropping up with Earthlink and Mindspring
off campus accounts not being able to complete an ftp connection to servers
at KSU. Â Or getting unexpectedly dropped.
Dow


Steven A. DuChene wrote:
<blockquote type="cite"
 cite="mid20021105072120.S19742 at lapsony.mydomain.here">
  Just wondering if anyone else is having problems sending E-mail to any
of the various sourceforge developer mailing lists from a Mindspring
or Earthlink address? Whenever I do so I get the E-mail bounced back
with the following message:

  
  
    Each of the following recipients was rejected by a remote mail server.
The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why
each recipient was rejected.
                           
    Recipient: <oscar-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
    Reason:    Response from mx08.mindspring.com [207.69.200.30] was "554 Quota violation for
postmaster at mindspring.com" when checking for existence of a postmaster mailbox. RFC822 section 6.3
(which you have to abide by if you send and receive Email) states that you are required to have a
postmaster mailbox that is routed to the person responsible for mail (http://www.rfc822.com/).  We
need to be able to contact you at the postmaster address to resolve potential problems if need be
before we can accept your mail. Please create a postmaster account at your site
cannot route to sender address <linux-clusters at mindspring.com>
    
  
  
I have contacted MindSpring/EarthLink tech support about this but all
I'm getting is a run around and various made-up excuses (each one
different depending on time of day/phase of moon). As a result I'm
not able to carry on the normal development projects I am involved with.
  


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