Re: emails to non existent recipients -- netzero.com fixed this problem?

2007-06-19 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Please note that of course, I can only speak for myself and the system I am responsible for. I really don't know if netzero.com uses a similar system or not. I have no idea what basis their blocking has, nor do I know whether it's in any way sensible or not. Granted, but it seems to me that

Re: emails to non existent recipients -- netzero.com fixed this problem?

2007-06-14 Thread Mike Kenny
Jonas, thanks for the reply. Some queries below, if you have the time. Mike On 6/14/07, Jonas Eckerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Blocking because a system/netblock has made many attempts to send to non-existant users makes sense. Any single address from wich a certain number of such attempt

Re: emails to non existent recipients -- netzero.com fixed this problem?

2007-06-14 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Mike Kenny wrote: Does blocking us on this basis make any sense? Blocking because a system/netblock has made many attempts to send to non-existant users makes sense. Any single address from wich a certain number of such attempts is done during a the last n minutes are blocked with a tenpor

Re: emails to non existent recipients -- netzero.com fixed this problem?

2007-06-13 Thread SM
Hi Mike, At 08:50 13-06-2007, Mike Kenny wrote: we weren't sending anything. We are an ISP providing email services to a large number of users in South Africa. Some of these users may have: mis-remembered an email mis-typed an email sent to an acquaintance who had changed email provide (maybe

Re: emails to non existent recipients -- netzero.com fixed this problem?

2007-06-13 Thread Mike Kenny
On 6/13/07, SM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Were you sending mail to non-existent accounts or doing sender validation? we weren't sending anything. We are an ISP providing email services to a large number of users in South Africa. Some of these users may have: mis-remembered an email mis-typ

Re: emails to non existent recipients -- netzero.com fixed this problem?

2007-06-13 Thread SM
At 02:57 13-06-2007, Mike Kenny wrote: On a related topic, netzero.com has been refusing connections from our SMTP servers. When I queried them the response I got was: have been blocked because we detected probe attempts. Activities like sending mail to non-existent accoun

Re: emails to non existent recipients -- netzero.com fixed this problem?

2007-06-13 Thread hamann . w
>> >> On a related topic, netzero.com has been refusing connections from our SMTP >> servers. When I queried them the response I got was: >> >> have been blocked because we detected probe attempts. Activities like >> sending mail to non-existent accounts or empty connections would qualify as >> a

RE: emails to non existent recipients -- netzero.com fixed this problem?

2007-06-13 Thread Michael Scheidell
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 5:58 AM To: Ralf Hildebrandt Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: emails to non existent recipients -- netzero.com fixed this problem? On a related topic, netzero.com has been refusing connections from our SMTP servers. When I queried them the response I go

Re: emails to non existent recipients -- netzero.com fixed this problem?

2007-06-13 Thread Mike Kenny
On a related topic, netzero.com has been refusing connections from our SMTP servers. When I queried them the response I got was: have been blocked because we detected probe attempts. Activities like sending mail to non-existent accounts or empty connections would qualify as a "dictionary search"