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Originally Posted by Route 66
Your ISP won't do anything based on a customer complaint.
Comcast has blocked emails from iRV2 as spam.
We have started the process with Comcast to remove the block but their process is SLOW.   |
It does not appear to be a problem with Comcast, or IRV2. It appears to be the smtp service that IRV2 uses. The remedy is for IRV to change smtp services, or demand that SMTP.COM get themselves removed from the "blacklist".
Because I have not been receiving email notification of updates to subscribed forums, as is the case with many other members that use Comcast, I called Comcast and asked them to find out why…. Were they blocking the email from IRV2?
My inquiry was routed to a technician that returned my call the next day (12-8-2010). Since his call came in when I was away, he left the info on my voice mail.
He stated that after quite a bit of searching he found the reason. Mail from IP address
174.132.174.245 (SMTP.COM) is being blocked. The address is on a “blacklist”.
SMTP.COM (174.132.174.245) is a third-party smtp service that IRV2 uses to relay mail to forum members.
The identification of SMTP.COM (174.132.174.245) can be found in the header of any email received from IRV2 before it was blocked sometime in November. I happened to have an old IRV2 email that I received before the blocking and found the subject IP address in the email header.
To follow up and learn a little more, I went to Mail-Abuse.com (which can also be found in the email header) to see just what they listed about the blocking of
SMTP.COM. The following is what I found:
“
This is an RBL notification. We received spam from the following addresses and they have been identified as spam sources. They are under the process of being added into the RBL. If any of the spam issues are resolved, please reply us and let us know. Lack of response will lead to more RBL listings.
174.132.174.245…”
SMTP.COM is registered as follows:
Technical Contact:
Dukach, Semyon
support@smtp.com
EMUmail, Inc.
258 Harvard street #305
Brookline, Massachusetts 02446
United States
+1.8777059362 Fax -- +1.6175078487
See Below for full Text:
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MAPS - Stopping Spam at its Source
Sun Nov 21 18:42:23 2010
Return-Path: <removed>
X-Original-To: <removed>
Delivered-To: <removed>
Received: from <removed>
by <removed> (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8134CA9445F;
Mon, 22 Nov 2010 07:28:59 +0000 (UTC)
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:29:04 +0800
From: <removed>
To:
abuse@smtp.com
cc: <removed>
Subject: RBL Listing Notification
Message-ID: <4B2812BEE1C95C6BB674C905@[10.1.165.127]>
X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Win32)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
Dear abuse desk,
This is an RBL notification. We received spam from the following addresses and they have been identified as spam sources. They are under the process of being added into the RBL. If any of the spam issues are resolved, please reply us and let us know. Lack of response will lead to more RBL listings.
-- Start of IP addresses --
174.132.174.245
-- End of IP addresses –
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-- Start of samples --
Note: More samples are available by request, but we need you to actually work on the spam problem.
1 spam sample for 74.54.27.119:
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Received: from [74.54.27.119] by <removed> via sendmail with smtp;
for 1 recipient; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:44:08 -0700
Received: from newscaster01 (smtp.mail4server.net [208.73.58.209])
by node-host15.smtp.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 8008F2AF6BA
for <removed>; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:44:07 -0500 (EST)
X-SMTPCOM-Spam-Policy: node-host15.smtp.com is a paid relay service.
We do not tolerate UCE of any kind.
Please report it ASAP to
abuse@smtp.com
X-SMTPCOM-Sender-ID: 1
X-SMTPCOM-Tracking-Number: 2176299
From: "Evian Investor Relations" <investorupdate@evianir.com>
To: <removed>
Subject: Evian IR signs new Client Universal Potash Corp (UPCO pink sheets)
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:45:21 -0800
Message-ID: <20101116-06452113-1018-0@newscaster01>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html
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For more information on the RBL, please see:
MAPS - Support - White Paper: Introduction to the Realtime Blackhole List (RBL) servers
MAPS - Support - Application Note: Guidelines for proper mailing list management
I certify that I have followed the procedures and criteria required for listing
these IP addresses in the Trend Micro/ MAPS RBL.
Kind regards,
Spam Investigations Team
Thank you for your support
Although, from what Dirk stated, it's probably a lost cause.
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