Re: IP not listed (64.207.132.144)???

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On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Dan Jahn wrote:

> I received a bounce back message, indicating that my ip was listed at 
> your site. Immediately (within 2 minutes of sending the original email 
> an within 1 minute of receiving the bounce back) went to your site, 
> and tried to http://dsbl.org/removalquery, and it says the ip address 
> indicated as listed in the bounce back email is in fact not listed. 
> Then sent email to [email protected], and got a "no mailbox by that name".
>
> What is going on here?!

Dunno. As to the [email protected] address, that's been broken for some time 
now -- the FAQ should be updated to reflect that. If your message to 
this list is representative of the one that bounced, then neither your 
mail server at mail.theravengroup.com/64.207.132.144 nor your 
dial-in/dsl IP at 71.211.180.6 are listed (and the practice of even 
looking at IP addresses more than one hop away for purposes of applying 
DSBL is generally frowned upon as it is not what the system was designed 
for). What's more, neither IP address has ever been listed.

So, your IP address appears to have no known issues, and certainly not 
as concerns DSBL.

It would appear that your correspondent has messed up his settings. If 
that's the case, s/he is probably rejecting all mail from everyone on 
the planet, so chances are that they will find out soonish. If the 
problem persists, however, contacting your correspondent using other 
means is your only option.

If you need assistance decoding the error message, feel free to drop 
another note with the exact error message; usually there is someone 
awake who monitors [email protected], and experienced mail administrators 
have seen it all by now :-)