[pchelpers] Re: SMTP server blocked

Can't remove a block if you don't know it's there....

Scott McNay wrote:

>Hi folks,
>
>Early on the 13th, I suddenly started getting my messages bounced back
>to me by Freelists, with an error message about being blocked. After
>some back-and-forth, my host said that Freelists was deliberately
>blocking me, and John Madden of Freelists said that there was a
>problem with reverse DNS on my end. My host confirmed it and had it
>fixed within minutes. It takes several days to propogate to all of the
>DNS servers, so I waited. A couple of days ago, when it still wasn't
>working, I did some more back-and-forth with my host and John, and
>John got into touch with John Madden again, who asked me what the
>problem was. I told him, last night, and he replied simply "Block
>lifed". So, I've been waiting a week and pestering my host to
>double-check (and starting to annoy him, I think), and pestering John
>to double-check, all because we didn't know that the block had to be
>manually removed. :(
>
>--Scott.
>

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