RE: Website link for 212.67.202.126

In any given week, I send about 200-300 emails via Pipex. 99.999% of them
reach their destination. In fact your 'trap' is the only blocked email I
have ever experienced, therefore, by simple logic you have got it wrong.

You suggest:-
The IP has just been
> relisted because you're still running an open relay.  As described on
> the listing page, you have a user 'admin' with an easy-to-guess password
> and have SMTP AUTH enabled, leading to an open relay.  Spammers have
> been using this relay method for some years now.

I am not the user 'admin' - nor do I know the admin password.
Why the hell would I want to contact Pipex? With my email normally working
fine, there is no reason to contact them - this is an issue for you.

Using another email account, I have informed the recipient of the blocked
email, that it was blocked by your site, and I will publish the full
transcript of this on my web site.
Legal action is still pending, and I suggest you resolve the issue as fast
as possible - you are wasting my time and costing me money.

John Nuttall

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexey Lobanov (dsbl) [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 28 September 2005 08:00
To: John Nuttall
Cc: 'DSBL'
Subject: Re: [DSBL-Contact] Website link for 212.67.202.126

Hello.

On 28/09/05 10:49, John Nuttall wrote:

> I am not the administrator of this server - I rent space from Pipex who
host
> my legitimate digital camera site - your grumble is with Pipex, not me.

Fine. So, the whole mail delivery problem must be solved by Pipex. The
only problem is if they know about this problem. Have you contacted them?

Alexey
DSBL volunteer

> John Nuttall
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Gulliver [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 28 September 2005 00:31
> To: John Nuttall
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [DSBL-Contact] Website link for 212.67.202.126
> 
> 
>>Why the hell is your site blocking email ? I have a legitimate request
> 
> from
> 
>>an end user and cannot reply to him. I run a commercial site and your dumb
>>blocking system, for which I never had the fucking courtesy of an email,
> 
> is
> 
>>now blocking me.
> 
> 
> I'm writing this not sure of your relationship to
> mswmx1.hosting.pipex.net (212.67.202.126).  I will assume, for the
> purposes of this message, that you are the administrator of this server.
> 
> You should have found and solved the problem before requesting removal,
> as you were warned to by the removal system.  The IP has just been
> relisted because you're still running an open relay.  As described on
> the listing page, you have a user 'admin' with an easy-to-guess password
> and have SMTP AUTH enabled, leading to an open relay.  Spammers have
> been using this relay method for some years now.
> 
> If 'admin' can do anything more than SMTP AUTH (i.e. access the system
> by some other method), your server was likely compromised by now as
> well; crackers are, in most cases, the only people faster than spammers
> at finding such weaknesses.  Your best course of action is likely to
> reinstall the whole system from scratch, and implement strong password
> requirements and checking in the future.
> 
> You'll be able to request removal again in 7 days from the DSBL website;
> this will give you plenty of time to find and fix the problem.  Please
> make sure to read the full removal page before clicking "I verify the
> above are true" next time.
> 


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