Earlier today I sent an email and recived the following "bounce" notice. What
I'm hoping is that someone who understands the "gobbledegeek" that I received
can offer a brief explanation. Was the bounce because I was not allowed to
send or the addressee was not allowed to receive? it would be nice if such a
notice was less than, at least to me, totally obtuse.
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From: MAILER-DAEMON@mac.com
Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details
Date: August 30, 2006 4:34:22 PM CDT
To: taliesinsoft@mac.com
The original message was received at Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:34:21 -0700 (PDT)
from smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<support@divinefiat.com>
(reason: 550-Message rejected because smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.171] is
blacklisted at)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to divinefiat.com.:
DATA
<<< 550-Message rejected because smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.171] is
blacklisted at
<<< 550-bl.spamcop.net see Blocked - see
http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml?17.250.248.171
<<< 550 :
550 5.1.1 <support@divinefiat.com>... User unknown
<<< 503 valid RCPT command must precede DATA
Reporting-MTA: dns; smtpout.mac.com
Received-From-MTA: DNS; smtpin08-en2
Arrival-Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:34:21 -0700 (PDT)
Final-Recipient: RFC822; support@divinefiat.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; divinefiat.com
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550-Message rejected because smtpout.mac.com
[17.250.248.171] is blacklisted at
Last-Attempt-Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:34:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: "James L. Ryan" <taliesinsoft@mac.com>
Date: August 30, 2006 4:34:32 PM CDT
To: support@divinefiat.com
Subject: Workstation Theme
I've paid for and downloaded the Workstation theme. The question now is how
do I include it in the Keynote panel of themes? What I downloaded included
two keynote presentations and two packages, but no documentation. Clicking on
either of the packages results in a "There were errors installing the
software" message.
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James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@mac.com
Dave Balderstone - 31 Aug 2006 02:24 GMT
> Earlier today I sent an email and recived the following "bounce" notice. What
> I'm hoping is that someone who understands the "gobbledegeek" that I received
> can offer a brief explanation. Was the bounce because I was not allowed to
> send or the addressee was not allowed to receive? it would be nice if such a
> notice was less than, at least to me, totally obtuse.
smtpout.mac.com (the mail server you were sending through) has been
blacklisted for some reason by spamcop.net. The server your message was
going to bounced it as a result.
TaliesinSoft - 31 Aug 2006 02:36 GMT
> In article <0001HW.C11BA2500005FD60B019F94F@news.supernews.com>,
> TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@mac.com> wrote:
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> blacklisted for some reason by spamcop.net. The server your message was
> going to bounced it as a result.
Dave,
Many thanks for the concise and clear, and not to mention quick, response!
As an aside, it appears that the block has been removed. A short time ago I
was successful in sending an email to the previously bounced address.
Jim

Signature
James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@mac.com
Dave Balderstone - 31 Aug 2006 02:56 GMT
> > In article <0001HW.C11BA2500005FD60B019F94F@news.supernews.com>,
> > TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@mac.com> wrote:
[quoted text clipped - 15 lines]
> As an aside, it appears that the block has been removed. A short time ago I
> was successful in sending an email to the previously bounced address.
I wondered about that. When I followed the link in the headers you
posted to <http://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=blcheck&ip=17.250.248.171>
spamcop said it had no info about the server.
D. Kirkpatrick - 31 Aug 2006 03:53 GMT
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <support@divinefiat.com>
> (reason: 550-Message rejected because smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.171] is
> blacklisted at)
This pretty much says it all. They have the Mac.com address blocked
for spam.
That may mean its on a spam list someplace or flagged by their own
in-house filter.
The IP address appears to have been reported at McFadden for spam on
Aug 30. It may or may not have been removed from that service by now.
DMK