SpamCop

[saintm]

Tried sending an email via smtp.sentechsa.com this evening and I got this reply:
550 http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml?66.18.69.32

So following the link and running the trace, you get to this page:
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">
SpamCop v 1.371 (c) SpamCop.net, Inc. 1998-2004 All Rights Reserved

Parsing input: 66.18.69.32
host 66.18.69.32 = smtp.sentechsa.com (cached)

Reporting addresses:
abuse@infosat.net
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Notice who reported the abuse? THEIR OWN COMPANY!? [:0]

Anyone have any ideas of an alternate smtp server I can use in the mean time?

Menlo Park Tower / 128k / NoWire.co.za

 

[arf9999]

smtp.vstar.co.za


MW128, Tower <b>60</b>(Northpark Plaza), Signal:16%,S-N-L: 7, BER: 45%

 

[dorris]

mail02.infosat.net
the funny part was, it was probably blocked by Sentech after a user complained about the SPAM Sent over the last 2 days, from one of the characters on Sentech lurking around these forums!!
Dude, I hope you didn't send those mails from Sentechs own SMTP, if you did, you might have landed your @ss in a bit of ****e, or found an easy way out the contract

00ps, just checked the msg source, you did send it from a sentech SMTP server.
its now officially spam, even spamcop recognises it!! HAHaha
Latest headline : Frustrated sentech user blacklists mailservers

 

[Deon]

Had the same problem with our email addresses, not just that but certain companies couldnt receive our emails and we couldnt receive their emails for some arb reason.... We have had a SMTP and POP server created for us on a Shared server in the US with our Hosting Server which is in the US....

The US is our only problem because it ALL TAKES so long to download but we arent having the above problem and arent having the "missing" email problem. you can get a solution like this for about I think R20 a month up to about R200... the sky is the limit depending on what you want with your mail server 2 gig trasfer or only 100meg...

its what we did to solve it, we cant have messages not going through.

 

[noswal]

I could send, but:


Failed to deliver to 'mywireless@sentechsa.com'
LOCAL module(account mywireless@sentechsa.com) reports:
account is full (quota exceeded)



_________________________________________________________________________
No more catenna, now its a custenna

 

[loosecannon]

dorris the only time that mail touched the sentech server was when it went to a sentech email address i used a alternate SMTP server to send the mail out ... the routing was quite beautifull ...

there server has been spamcop listed for quite a while now ... before the mail was sent ...

 

[donn]

There is a simple policy to get spamcop to take the address off. of course the idiots at Sentech don't know what it is, so I guess the USERS will have to do it. Just like the USERS had to fix the open proxy nonsense.

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Donn Edwards

Why is ADSL like a Cheeseburger? Find out at http://privacy.4mg.com

“Free-market advocates often warn that the only thing worse than a state-controlled monopoly is a privatised one.”

 

[loosecannon]

The smtp.sentechsa.com server is no longer listed on
Spamcop.net.

Your are more than welcome to confirm this by using the
following url:

http://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=checkblock&ip=66.18.69.32

At this stage we do have an acceptable use policy, however
the server is blacklisted due to virus activity on client's
machines, not through massive amounts of spam being sent.

I would suggest that you resend your emails to ensure that
the receipients receive them.

Regards
Tristan
Sentech Support
0860 736 832

 

[arf9999]

And there is no virus filter on Sentech's mail server??

 

[Brolloks]

arf9999 ... why do you sound/look surprised?

 

[Brolloks]

Expecting the ISP's to provide anti-virus filters is akin to expecting the schools to teach your kids moral values. Some do some don't. The ISP's who do provide virus scanning do so as a service to get more clients and to limit loss of bandwidth due to mass mailing as result of virus infections.

 

[qdada]

My understanding of internet technologies is limited but ...

Since we have a routable ip address; does it not mean then that one can SETUP his own smtp server and send via localhost ?

I recognise though that if this works then the problem would be that a range of dymanic IP addresses; such as the once we obtain on-connect to Sentech; would be black listed.
I think I read an article someplace suggesting that some servers are not relaying mail unless they originate from a valid DNS ?

 

[loosecannon]

i run my own SMTP relay [closed to network/authentication] the way it works is it tries to send mail directly tothe recipients smtp server some servers do not accept connections from dialup/adsl ranges of addresses and as such in these cases i reroute the mail to a alternate server or even via sentech/infosat ....

a side note on this is telkom internet does not accept connections from ADSL users all mail to TI from ADSL addresses must go through the SAIX mail server ...

 

[arf9999]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Brolloks</i>
<br />The ISP's who do provide virus scanning do so as a service to get more clients and to limit loss of bandwidth due to mass mailing as result of virus infections.
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This is my point...if they don't scan, it's THEIR bandwidth that gets used/abused. Good network policy is to stop "bad" traffic as soon as possible.

In answer to your question, when it comes to Sentech, nothing surprises me anymore.

 

[regardtv]

loosecannon ... I like the dynami re-routing your doing in the mail server... are you running this via sendmail/postfix/qmail ?

 

[loosecannon]

i use sendmail/ldap and place the entries into the server via php website .... of course without ldap you can use the mailertable file as per virtusertable ....

what happens is any mail to a domain in mailertable gets sent to the smtp server assosiated with it ... i dont like relying on ISP's for my services [understandable when it comes to sentech] so it is a way of seting smtp gateway on a per domain basis and useing DNS lookups as a default ...

im sure other mail servers have the same capability but i stay true to sendmail been using it since 1996 and still going strong

 

[dorris]

yeah, several other smtp servers have that relaying if rejected facility