[thelist] Hotmail trashes e-mail

Terry Clark Terry.Clark at eqos.com
Thu Jan 25 12:16:31 CST 2001


cheers for that

I have not yet had cause to try this before but I'll give it a go and it
will give me something to do . I'll try anything 
(well almost) once.
Right where's my Sherlock hat...

tc

>Some more info is at http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ and
>http://email.miningco.com/internet/email/library/weekly/aa122297.htm

>You can also check your hosts IP address at
>http://maps.vix.com/cgi-bin/lookup  to see if it is in the Realtime
>Blackhole List (RBL)
>         Mike

and 

>What I managed to do was grab the headers from one of the bounced messages
>and determine the original account the mail was sent from; my ISP then
>talked to their ISP to confirm that emails were leaving that account in
>quantity - and that address wasn't being spoofed as well - and simply
remove
>their account.
>If you are lucky you may be able to do the same.

>If you want me to have a look at the headers of one of the messages, let me
>know; otherwise your ISP, in this case Hotmail, should be able to determine
>where the email came from by the headers.

>HTH

>Andy W




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