grrr. Bad server.

Can't seem to mail

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FSCK!

I spoke too soon. We're right back to the crapola. Recipient name not recognized. Up yours, buddy. Man, I hate this server.

grrr.

Attempted mailing again using the IP address instead of the domain name. I was then told 'relaying denied'. I've looked up our server's IP address at a site that'll tell you whether you're being blacklisted by any anti-spam servers. Got one positive result - apparently the IP address that I'm mailing from is blacklisted by one server somewhere in .cx. I'm told:

is DNSbl listed. by xbl.selwerd.cx

www.wiseoldmule.com
xxx-porns.com
advanceddating.com
www.kellyswebcam.com
uplink for NETBLK-LIKEWHOA
epending by dksmail.dksno.com/204.27.101.91
SPEWS S644
NS for bzah.com (Empire Towers)
www.mydishnow.com
please see http://selwerd.cx/xbl/
this is not a list of open relays

Now, I don't know how we got on this list. I do know that my office is routed through a machine at our ISP's offices. I'm thinking that- just possibly - spam must've come from one of the ISP's other users, and that we're now on the list because everything issues from the same machine, or some such... I'm really not happy, but I'm guessing that this may be the problem. I've already checked out the MS support stuff at Microsoft's web site and none of it applies to the current situation.

Further bulletins as events warrant.

Diagnosis.

It does, indeed, appear to have been that our IP address was on a spamlist. Or at least on a list of open relays, which amounts to the same thing. The problem seems to have been fixed for the moment. I've contacted our ISP to ask them to do something about this so that we don't run into more crud like this in future; in the meantime, the mail's working again. I wish we didn't have to use that damn router/firewall/whatever, I get the feeling our provider doesn't really pay much attention to it... oh well. Their problem.