[NTLUG:Discuss] Austin SWBell smtp relay issues (not really a linux topic but... )

[bryn konti]

You can try schecking SWB's MTA (from one of your
client's computers) for send errors using telnet...the
connection should look something like this:

# telnet XXXX.swb.com 25
Trying 105.258.202.7...
Connected to XXXX.swb.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 XXXX.swb.com ESMTP server (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27
201-229-121-127-20010626) ready Tue, 20 Aug 2002
00:22:05 +0000
helo localhost
250 XXXX.swb.com
mail from: jackthehacker at anonymous.com
250 Sender <jackthehacker at anonymous.com> Ok
rcpt to: anybody at aol.com
250 Recipient <anybody at aol.com> Ok


If it says OK, then Southwestern Bell will relay the
message to AOL (Almost On Line), otherwise you should
get some type of error message. 

Cheers,

Bryn







--- Fred James <fredjame at concentric.net> wrote:
> A generalized version goes like this:
> (1) No mater how the list to be blocked came into
> being, AOL is doing 
> the blocking, right?
> (2) Whoever is doing the blocking will not
> (normally) unblock at the 
> behest of the customers of another vendor (i.e., the
> sender(s) of the 
> blocked email - spam or not).
> (3) If AOL is blocking, it will (normally) take
> requests from AOL 
> customers to get AOL to stop blocking.
> ... many variables possible, but that's the gist (I
> believe).
> 
> 
> jeremyb at univista.com wrote:
> 
> > Hey folks,  have any of you had issues with
> blocked/returned AOL.com 
> > destined email sent from smtp servers on SWBell
> DSL lines?
> >
> >   I know this isn't exactly a Linux topic,  but I
> figured some of you 
> > may have been affected by this.
> >  I have two Austin clients that can't send any
> email to AOL email 
> > addresses...   that's a real problem when half the
> >  country seems to use AOL.
> >
> >   ...anyhow,  after doing the usual
> he-said-she-said song-and-dance 
> > with SWBell, ASI and AOL I discovered that
> > SWBell sent a list of 500 or so "suspicious" IPs
> to AOL.  Suspicious 
> > meaning smtp relaying problems were "known" to
> exist on these 
> > servers.  Well,  my clients don't relay mail and
> haven't been sending 
> > spam. According to AOL, the heart of the matter is
> that SWBell 
> > actually has the smtp relaying problems on their
> own server.  ...not 
> > the necessarily 500 or so customers they
> >
> > Pimped out to AOL....   What? ...Huh?  ..when does
> this start to make 
> > sense?  Now I've got clients that can't
> communicate with their 
> > clients... and a bunch of multinational
> conglomerates pointing their 
> > slimy Draconian fingers at each other.    I hate
> this part of the job.
> >
> >  
> >     Is Anyone else experiencing this crapola?
> >
> > Jeremy Brooks
> > Univista
> > office: 512-832-6209
> >
> 
> -- 
> small is beautiful
> 
> 
> 


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