Thanks for clarifying a lot of things.
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 02:35:43PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Using a large mallet, Horace G. Friend III whacked out:
>
> > Since April 27, I noticed that ALL my mails pass through outblaze.com, a
> > Hong Kong based company that I suspect, with extreme prejudice, allows
> > relaying of spam or could be directly involved with sending of spam
> > msgs.
>
> Outblaze is a "third party email outsourcer".
By "third party email outsourcer", do you mean it acts as a relay for
selected clients such as mail.com? Including spammer's perhaps?
>
> > I found out about this "go-between" because I've spent weeks trying to
> > configure my mail system to block spam and yet I still receive spam
> > (once or twice a week from 6-or-more-a-week previously). Upon checking
> > the complete headers, I noticed outblaze.com in all my mails which is
> > also marked "maybe forged" by iname.net.
>
> "may be forged" = forward and reverse DNS dont match.
>
Aren't "legit mail" supposed to have matching forward and reverse DNS to
avoid having it thought of (or classified) as spam mail?
I have been a mail.com (iname.net) client since 1994 or thereabouts but
this "outblaze.com" go-between only began in Apr 25, 2001. I keep "tons"
of my previous emails and none has been relayed from outblaze.com.
Just FYI, I recd a bulletin this weekend from iname.net about their
email software update. I checked the headers and didn't see any sign of
outblaze.com.
The only other email that I recd during the weekend w/o any sign of
outblaze.com was a newsletter from Verisign.
> > But I'd like to stop this go-between (spf4.us4.outblaze.com) becuase I
> > have recd an altered email from them. I subscribe to Java Developer
> > Connection and regularly receive bulletins from them. Last week, I rec'd
> > a msg supposedly from JDC with a
> > "From: JDC.C&[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
>
> Likely, outblaze's MTA qualified the mail which came with an unqualified
> sender.
>
> > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Apr 27 08:52:06 2001
> > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> likely forged
>
[snipped]
> > Received: from spf4.us4.outblaze.com (205-158-62-26.outblaze.com
> > [205.158.62.26] (may be forged))
>
> forward and reverse dns dont match - but that's not a bad or wrong thing
>
> > by smv05.iname.net (8.9.3/8.9.1SMV2) with ESMTP id OAA02486
> > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent by <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 26 Apr 2001
> > 14:17:22 -0400 (EDT)
>
> outblaze - hands off to mail.com / iname. Again its an internal handoff
>
> frodo:~ dig mail.com MX
> ; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> mail.com MX
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> mail.com. 59m23s IN MX 10 mail-com.mr.outblaze.com.
> mail.com. 59m23s IN MX 20 mail-com-bk.mr.outblaze.com.
>
> 8<
>
> So yeah - if you have a mail.com account - the messages WILL pass through
> outblaze. So what's your point?
>
I didn't know that outblaze.com acted as mail.com's MX until now. I did
send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to inquire about outblaze.com, but
all I got was an auto-reply. How did you get the ANSWER SECTION? I must
assume :) that you used DiG 8.2. But what is DiG 8.2? And where can I
d/l a copy? Any tips and suggestions are appreciated. :)
So my point is, I'd like this outblaze.com go-between to stop. But since
you outblaze.com acts as MX to mail.com, I probably have 2 choices:
1. complain to iname.net regarding the matter or
2. stop using mail.com
One last thing, do you know of any "clean" email forwarding service?
Thanks very much.
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Horace G. Friend III
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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