On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 01:22:32PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote:
# A friend with some clout contacted mail.com and reports:
#
# > They claim that they do not block based on relaytest, but they do refer to it
# > and some people may mistakenly believe that's the reason.
#
# So there you have it. If you're being blocked by Mail.com, it's not
# because you failed rlytest because of a sendmail-specific test.
#
> From: "Mail.com Abuse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:09:54 -0400
> To: Justin Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: blacklisted?
>
> Justin
>
> On Thu Jul 15, we received a high volume of traffic from 206.246.140.165
> (iq-ss5.iquest.net). Specifically, we got 472 messages in an hour. If you
> check http://maps.vix.com/tsi/new-rlytest.cgi?ADDR=iq-ss5.iquest.net you
> will see that this machine is an open relay. We therefore blocked it. If
> you secure this machine, we will be glad to unblock it.
as can be seen here, no, they did not claim that that is why it was
blacklisted, but that the host is an open relay.
of course, their own mail servers do not get past test TWO themselves.
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