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    <title>Bad postmasters</title>
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    <published>2006-12-08T11:56:13+00:00</published>
    <updated>2008-01-02T19:55:09+00:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>tumbleweed</name>
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    <category term="internet" />
    <category term="nightmares" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p><span class="caps"><span class="caps">OMFG</span></span>, I just received a bounce from an e-mail I sent 6&nbsp;months&nbsp;ago.</p>

<p>The mail was written to postmasters, complaining about their <span class="caps"><span class="caps">MTA</span></span>&#8217;s not understanding 45x codes. Sounds like that is just the beginning of&nbsp;their&nbsp;problems&#8230;</p>

<p>/me wonders if that &#8220;lost connection&#8221; was 6 months ago, or ran for 6 months before it&nbsp;got&nbsp;lost&#8230;</p>

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<blockquote>
  <p>This is the Postfix program at&nbsp;host&nbsp;gs-smta-01.broadbandscope.net.</p>
  
  <p>I&#8217;m sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be
  be delivered to one or more recipients. It&#8217;s&nbsp;attached&nbsp;below.</p>
  
  <p>For further assistance, please send mail&nbsp;to&nbsp;&lt;postmaster&gt;</p>
  
  <p>If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
  delete your own text from the attached&nbsp;returned&nbsp;message.</p>
  
  <p>&lt;postmaster@mail.sfd.co.uk&gt;: lost connection with mail.sfd.co.uk[81.140.0.66]
      while sending&nbsp;message&nbsp;body</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>From: Stefano Rivera &lt;<span class="caps"><span class="caps">XXXXX</span></span>@rivera.za.net&gt;<br />
    Subject: Misconfigured mailservers (greylist incompatible)<br />
    To: postmaster@sfd.co.uk, postmaster@mail.sfd.co.uk, postmaster@broadbandscope.net<br />
    Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:47:17 +0200<br />&nbsp;User-Agent:&nbsp;Mutt/1.5.9i</p>
    
    <p>Sorry, but you guys have no technical contact listed anywhere, so I just
    mailed all the&nbsp;relevant&nbsp;postmasters.</p>
    
    <p>Your outgoing mail servers don&#8217;t seem to retry mail when they get
    temporary errors (45x series). The problem servers for me were
    gs-mta-04.broadbandscope.net [81.140.160.226] and&nbsp;gs-mta-03.broadbandscope.net&nbsp;[81.140.160.225].</p>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p><span class="caps">OMFG</span>, I just received a bounce from an e-mail I sent 6 months&nbsp;ago.</p>

<p>The mail was written to postmasters, complaining about their <span class="caps">MTA</span>&#8217;s not understanding 45x codes. Sounds like that is just the beginning of their&nbsp;problems&#8230;</p>

<p>/me wonders if that &#8220;lost connection&#8221; was 6 months ago, or ran for 6 months before it got&nbsp;lost&#8230;</p>

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<blockquote>
  <p>This is the Postfix program at host&nbsp;gs-smta-01.broadbandscope.net.</p>
  
  <p>I&#8217;m sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be
  be delivered to one or more recipients. It&#8217;s attached&nbsp;below.</p>
  
  <p>For further assistance, please send mail to&nbsp;&lt;postmaster&gt;</p>
  
  <p>If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
  delete your own text from the attached returned&nbsp;message.</p>
  
  <p>&lt;postmaster@mail.sfd.co.uk&gt;: lost connection with mail.sfd.co.uk[81.140.0.66]
      while sending message&nbsp;body</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>From: Stefano Rivera &lt;<span class="caps">XXXXX</span>@rivera.za.net&gt;<br />
    Subject: Misconfigured mailservers (greylist incompatible)<br />
    To: postmaster@sfd.co.uk, postmaster@mail.sfd.co.uk, postmaster@broadbandscope.net<br />
    Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:47:17 +0200<br />
    User-Agent:&nbsp;Mutt/1.5.9i</p>
    
    <p>Sorry, but you guys have no technical contact listed anywhere, so I just
    mailed all the relevant&nbsp;postmasters.</p>
    
    <p>Your outgoing mail servers don&#8217;t seem to retry mail when they get
    temporary errors (45x series). The problem servers for me were
    gs-mta-04.broadbandscope.net [81.140.160.226] and
    gs-mta-03.broadbandscope.net&nbsp;[81.140.160.225].</p>
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