On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 17:40, Terry Smith wrote: > 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. > >
I'm not an Adelphia customer but I also can not send messages to the Mandrake mailing lists using my ISP's smtp server. I spent many hours on the phone with my ISP and exchanged several e-mails with Charles Davant at Mandrake who tried to help. In the end I too had to finally give up and look for an alternative means of posting. A few hours with Google led me to http://www.myrealbox.com. A free service which is run by the good folks at Novell who are using the site as test bed for their Netmail product. They had moratorium on new accounts for a while, but they are once again accepting new users. I have been using the service for nearly a year now and have had only one instance of the system being unavailable when I wanted to get my mail. I could go on about all the 'Great' features of the service, but I don't want anyone to think I'm a Novell employee, (I'm not).. While I appreciate the fact the Mandrake mailing list are spam free, it is rather irksome to not be able to use a service I am paying for. But as the French say... ceci est la vie. Hope this helps everyone. -- Chuck Stuettgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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