Re: [MiNT] Problems with mail service at Magdeburg

[Michael Schwingen <rincewind@discworld.dascon.de>]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 08:20:18PM +0100, Guido Flohr wrote:
> 
> The "Service unavailable" looks like the truth to me.  If I see it
> correctly, at least on Jan 3 the LAN at uni-magdeburg.de was completely
> down.

No. The lines before that came from cs.uni-magdeburg.de and tell what is
going on: the machine where the SMTP connection originates is in the ORBS
blacklist of machines with open relaying and it thus actively rejected by
the SMTP server, so it seems that the admins at cs.uni-magdeburg.de decided
to upgrade the server and only accept mail from sites that do not promote
the distribution of spam. It seems that change happened sometime around the
new year, because (as I now found out) my mailhub has been in ORBS since
August now.

I have upgraded the sendmail config on my provider's mailbub now and had it
successfully removed from the ORBS database in a matter of minutes (ORBS
keeps checking the machine for about 14 days and re-inserts it into the
database if the test fails, but the first wave of test connections passed
fine).

Now I hope the DNS at uni-magdeburg.de flushes the entries soon, so that I
can sent mail to Frank again ;-)

cu
Michael
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