Email Problem Resolved

Well, I just resolved a Charter Communications problem. It seems that my IP address was in a block that was recently listed in Spamhaus' PBL. That means that people using that list would reject my email if it didn't come from Charter's mail server.

Since I use my own mail server, we suddenly started getting a lot of our email bounced. That's not good (to say the least).

Some of the people I spoke to at Charter didn't have a clue about what the problem was or how to deal with people. It took a day; but now it's fixed.

The Spamhaus web page said to send email to postmaster@charter.net. I did that twice, but never received a response. Of course, since my email to other people was bouncing because of the PBL entry, it's possible that the postmaster was just silently discarding email.




Copyright 2008 Kenneth Lerman
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