Re: Why is my ISP blocking incoming emails - header attached

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From: Aloke Prasad (aprasad123_at_columbus.rr.invalid)
Date: 09/06/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 07:10:34 -0400

The header in this case was from a bounced email titles "Testing". However,
previous e-mails from vsnl.net with proper subjects were refused as well...

I'll check with RR and see what they have to say about this. 

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Aloke
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"Alphonse" <alphonsedt@free.fr> wrote in message 
news:%23ETGU9$kEHA.3372@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> In this case below, did you send someone a message with Subject: Testing?
> I receive these types of messages, but I find that 100% of the time the
> recipient is not anybody I know, the Subject or message body are anything 
> I
> wrote... it seems to be a way of confirming e-mail addresses by spammers, 
> or
> messages sent by spammers using fake sender's addresses (in this case
> yours), which eventually find themselves to your box. If, on the other 
> hand,
> both the sender and recipient addresses in the returned message were
> correct, I would ask my ISP.
>
> "Aloke Prasad" <aprasad123@columbus.rr.invalid> wrote in message
> news:u0T0ea$kEHA.2140@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> I am looking for advise from someone who can decipher e-mail headers 
> better
> than I can ...
>
> E-mails from an address in India are not getting through to my roadrunner
> account.  The headers are attached.
>
> Your message cannot be delivered to the following recipients:
>
>  Recipient address: apraaaa@columbus.rr.com
>  Reason: Server rejected MAIL FROM address.
>  Diagnostic code: smtp;550 5.7.1 Mail Refused - 203.200.235 - See
> http://security.rr.com/mail_blocks.htm#security - 20040804
>  Remote system: dns;ohmx-1.columbus.rr.com
> (TCP|172.16.28.232|43870|65.24.0.112|25) (ohmx03.mgw.rr.com ESMTP Welcome 
> to
> Road Runner.  NO UCE *** FOR AUTHORIZED USE ONLY! ***)
>
>
>
>
>

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