[ale] AT&T blocked

[Jim Kinney]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> On Wed February 18 2009, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>> >     host scc-mailrelay.att.net [204.127.208.75]: 521-72.52.240.41 blocked
>> > by sbc:blacklist.mailrelay.att.net.
>> >     521 DNSRBL: Blocked for abuse. See http://att.net/blocks
>> >
>> > I just had this same problem in early January, 01/08/2009.. this is
>> > getting old. Is it me, or AMS?? I know, that message was from my ISP
>> > atnex account..
>>
>> 72.52.240.41 will be blocked by all sensible email admins (google
>> excluded as they accept pretty much anything and shove it into spam).
>> The problem with 72.52.240.41 is that it has a PTR for a host that
>> doesn't have an A record.
>>
>> ~$ host 72.52.240.4
>> 4.240.52.72.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer host.wholesalechandeliers.com.
>> ~$ host host.wholesalechandeliers.com
>> Host host.wholesalechandeliers.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
>
> so, this is an AMS issue. Do I need to push back on them to get this resolved?
> Or do I just move providers to someplace that is a little more secure?

Short term: get a corrected/valid reverse record in place. Their
problem - they fix it.
Long term: dump 'em.
>
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