(OT) Mail got blocked because of SORBS/DYNABLOCK

Reuben D. Budiardja techlist at voyager.phys.utk.edu
Thu Apr 1 15:28:57 UTC 2004


On Thursday 01 April 2004 09:23 am, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> Reuben, Ed Wilts credibility in this list, on a scale of 1 to 10, is so
> close to ten that it is indistinguishable from ten.  Please take his
> advice.

Of course  !, for the record, I don't doubt his advice at all, I just wanted 
to understand better, at least for my benefit. :) So I thank everyone for the 
replies.

> On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:04:21AM -0500, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> (A possible explanation.. ):
> Which has A dynamically assigned IP address that is in the block list.
> This IP address is recorded in the headers which accompany the email.
> the block list filters find it there and wallah! blocked.

That's what I thought too, but if that's the case, then  changing the entry 
for SMTP server in his outlook client won't help, since his address will 
still be in the header.

RDB
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Reuben D. Budiardja
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