[64842] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Postmaster contact?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Mon Nov 3 15:08:11 2003
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 15:03:23 -0500
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: Bob German <bobgerman@irides.com>
Cc: 'Charles Sprickman' <spork@inch.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <010e01c3a244$4118b540$2001a8c0@potomacdomain.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Bob German writes on 11/3/2003 2:54 PM:
> My understanding is that they started breaking the RFC by refusing mail
> with null <> senders last week.
>
> Based on past experience, I wasn't too surprised.
Doesn't look like they are doing this.
suresh@frodo 01:31:15 [~]$ dnsmx verizon.net
0 relay.verizon.net
suresh@frodo 01:31:23 [~]$ telnet relay.verizon.net 25
Trying 206.46.170.12...
Connected to relay.verizon.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 sc011.verizon.net MailPass SMTP server v1.0.6 - 103003062626JY ready
Mon, 3 Nov 2003 14:01:28 -0600
ehlo frodo.hserus.net
250-sc011.verizon.net
250-8BITMIME
250 SIZE 20971520
mail from: <>
250 Sender <> OK
rcpt to: <postmaster@verizon.net>
250 Recipient <postmaster@verizon.net> Ok
rset
250 Ok resetting state
quit
221 sc011.verizon.net closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.
Another thing - verizon is fairly responsive and does have some clued
people in there. I have forwarded this thread to a friend in Verizon's
postmaster desk.
srs
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