I'm the fellow that needs help :-). Or put another way, another unhappy Adelphia customer (the only high speed access available in my neigbborhood).
This is a test msg, passing the email through an SMTP server at work. Terry Smith Cape Cod USA On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 15:37, Technoslick wrote: > On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 11:52, Greg Meyer wrote: > > > The same exact problem that adelphia has. Thank you very much for clarifying, > > I now have the info that I need to speak with the ISP again. > > - -- > > Greg > > Greg, > > I just wanted to follow-up with you, and let everyone else one the list > know, about my on-going battle to get any posts through from an Adelphia > SMTP server. After a lengthy talk with a tech support personnel at > Adelphia, yesterday (one many before), it would seem that Mandrake's > listserv is blocking all emails sent from Adelphia's SMTP servers. Why? > Last year, around late summer, Adelphia experienced a rash of spam > attacks that nearly broke their system and also propagated the attacks > to others. It was the opinion of the tech support person that Mandrake > is blocking all email send from their servers because of this. I have > already discussed my own problem with Mandrake, and in fairness to their > efforts, they did try to manually add my address to their system to let > me through. It didn't work. Reverse look-up was what was also killing > me, as it seems to be the case in this thread. > > Anyway, I wanted to let everyone know that there isn't anything that can > be done at Adelphia's end. They have nearly migrated all their several > million customers to the new email server systems, so as it is today is > as good as it will get from them. They are now pointing the finger to > Mandrake and saying that Mandrake must remove Adelphia from their list > of spam domains. > > How I was able to get around my problem was to use the SMTP server of my > dial-up account (this is one reason why I am broke all the time...) by > authenticating through my email client. It works fine, as long as the > ISP is set up to allow this. Coincidentally, my test post triggered a > return email from an anti-spam agent that my Dial-up ISP is using, > forcing me to do a one-time validation. No big deal, really. > > While my solution is of very little help to Adolpho, it would be to > anyone who has been trying to use an Adelphia SMTP server to communicate > with this list (or some others?) Don't ask me why I didn't think of this > sooner....sometimes I get so deep into the forest that I wouldn't know > what a tree looked like if I bumped into it...I apologize for > interrupting the thread, but I had hoped that this information would > have some value to everyone. > > T > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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