[ale] missed/bounced messages

[Matt Smith]

Apparently Earthlink had a glitch in their email processing to prevent
spam.. I had a got a similar bounce..  I sent an email to their support and
a couple days later got the following response:
================
During a brief time on the evening on September 25, the Earthlink mail    
servers erroneously refused mail connections from many hosts across the
Internet.  This problem happened due to a glitch in the transmission of
server configuration data used to block spam between our various mail
servers.

The error message you received:

550 Dialups/open relays blocked. Contact <openrelay at abuse.earthlink.net>

... is normally intended for mail hosts that Earthlink has blocked in      
order to protect our members from unwanted commercial email.  However on
the evening in question, this error was passed to many mail servers not
intentionally blocked by Earthlink.  If you received this error, during
this time frame, it's very likely that you are not being blocked, and   
have been able to successfully route mail to the Earthlink network as of
the late evening hours of 9/25.  If you find yourself still running into
this error as of the time you receive this message, then your host has
been blocked and you should reply to this mail or contact
openrelay at abuse.earthlink.net for assitance in being unblocked.
===============

I'm not sure if you're seeing logs from this timeframe and it's now fixed,
or if maybe they're having the same problem again.


--Matt


-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Kilpatrick [mailto:kilpatms at mindspring.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 10:57 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] missed/bounced messages


Last night I got an automatic message from ezmlm, which
handles the mail for this list, pointing out that 16 seemingly
random messages from Ale to me had been bounced by my ISP
since Sept. 26.
I called tech support at Earthlink and got no help.  Any ideas
on why roughly two Ale messages were bounced each day? I checked
the archives and can see no obvious pattern to the bounced messages.
I cannot identify the listed URL: 207.69.200.36

Sean


The relevant part of the message from Ale looks like this:

---------------- <begin copied material> ------------------



Here are the message numbers:


   13657     13640     13650    13635
   13636     13647     13661    13658
   13637     13646     13662    13652
   13641     13654     13642    13655


--- Enclosed is a copy of the bounce message I received.


Return-Path: <>
Received: (qmail 16505 invoked for bounce); 26 Sep 2002 23:59:33 -0000
Date: 26 Sep 2002 23:59:33 -0000
From: MAILER-DAEMON at mail.room17.com
To: ale at ale.org
To: ale-return-13657- at ale.org
Subject: failure notice


Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.room17.com.
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.


<kilpatms at mindspring.com>:
Connected to 207.69.200.36 but sender was rejected.
Remote host said: 550 Dialups/open relays blocked. Contact 
<openrelay at abuse.earthlink.net>

---------------------- <end copied material> ---------------------------


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