[64841] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Verizon Postmaster contact?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Sprickman)
Mon Nov 3 15:03:46 2003
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 15:03:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
To: Bob German <bobgerman@irides.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <010e01c3a244$4118b540$2001a8c0@potomacdomain.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Bob German wrote:
>
> My understanding is that they started breaking the RFC by refusing mail
> with null <> senders last week.
>
> Based on past experience, I wasn't too surprised.
Heh.
Doesn't seem to be that:
spork@green[~]$ telnet relay.verizon.net 25
Trying 206.46.170.12...
Connected to relay.verizon.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 sc001.verizon.net MailPass SMTP server v1.0.6 - 103003062626JY ready
Mon, 3 Nov 2003 14:00:11 -0600
mail from: spork@spork.us
250 Sender <spork@spork.us> OK
rset
250 Ok resetting state
mail from: spork@bway.net
550 You are not allowed to send mail:sc001.verizon.net
rset
250 Ok resetting state
mail from: <spork@bway.net> sporker
550 You are not allowed to send mail:sc001.verizon.net
quit
221 sc001.verizon.net closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.
We receive very very few spam complaints, and spamcop has been silent on
us for at least a month. About the only spam I've been made aware of is
from trojaned dsl customers, but we cut that off when notified. So I'm at
a loss as to what this is all about...
Thanks,
Charles
> -bob
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
> Charles Sprickman
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 2:50 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Verizon Postmaster contact?
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I see VZ was not kind enough to put any contact info in Jared's NOC
> list. They are currently blocking all mail from an ISP customer of mine
> (based on the envelope From, not IP), and I need to get someone on the
> phone to clear this up.
>
> Sorry for the OT.
>
> Charles
>
> --
> Charles Sprickman
> spork@inch.com
>
