Email to my brother started bouncing.
(receiver domain name)
SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection:
550 5.7.1 [C16] RBL Restriction:
See (web address)lookup.abusix.com/search?q=(my domain name)
What's Abusix.com when its at home and what has it got to do
with my email traffic?
Legit or just collecting data?
Email to my brother started bouncing.
(receiver domain name)
SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection:
550 5.7.1 [C16] RBL Restriction:
See (web address)lookup.abusix.com/search?q=(my domain name)
What's Abusix.com when its at home and what has it got to do
with my email traffic?
Legit or just collecting data?
You are very lucky to *get* a bounce message these days! Most stuff that fails
SPF is dropped silently on the floor without warning. It catches out a lot of small businesses whose ISP's have sloppy mail configs.
I never get emails from people with misconfigured SPFs any more. My ISP simply
drops them on the floor likewise with most hostile binary threats unless it really is a zero day exploit and not in their danger list.
On 9/16/2023 5:48 AM, legg wrote:> Email to my brother started bouncing.> > (receiver domain name)> SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection:> 550 5.7.1 [C16] RBL Restriction:> See (web address)lookup.abusix.com/search?q=(mydomain name)> > What's Abusix.com when its at home and what has it got to do> with my email traffic?You (unlikely) or someone else in your mail domain has beenregarded as a source of spam. So, your domain has likelybeen blacklisted. The URL will likely
On 9/16/2023 5:48 AM, legg wrote:
Email to my brother started bouncing.
(receiver domain name)
SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection:
550 5.7.1 [C16] RBL Restriction:
See (web address)lookup.abusix.com/search?q=(my domain name)
What's Abusix.com when its at home and what has it got to do
with my email traffic?
You (unlikely) or someone else in your mail domain has been
regarded as a source of spam. So, your domain has likely
been blacklisted. The URL will likely give you some ideas
as to how you can "fix" the situation.
The message *suggests* you visit the URL provided for more
information on why you've been singled out thusly. It
can prove helpful if, for example, your machine has been
hacked and is being used to deliver spam.
Legit or just collecting data?
Visiting ANY <dubious> URL should always be done with caution
(AND your email client configured not to interpret HTML mail >unconditionally). But, likely worth a peek.
Or, do a web search for examples of the information they provide.
On 16/09/2023 13:48, legg wrote:
Email to my brother started bouncing.
(receiver domain name)
SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection:
550 5.7.1 [C16] RBL Restriction:
See (web address)lookup.abusix.com/search?q=(my domain name)
What's Abusix.com when its at home and what has it got to do
with my email traffic?
I'll hazard a guess that your brother or his ISP use abusix to filter
emails destined for his email address. And for some reason your domain
name is either on a blacklist or has a malformed or missing SPF record.
Legit or just collecting data?
Probably just telling you that if you want to know more about why your
email has been rejected by their mail filters you can go to that URL.
You are very lucky to *get* a bounce message these days! Most stuff that >fails SPF is dropped silently on the floor without warning. It catches
out a lot of small businesses whose ISP's have sloppy mail configs.
I never get emails from people with misconfigured SPFs any more. My ISP >simply drops them on the floor likewise with most hostile binary threats >unless it really is a zero day exploit and not in their danger list.
I contacted my ISP 'abuse' link and copied the details.
They've been blocked and cleared and blocked again . . .
Morons or bots at both ends of the trail.
On Sat, 16 Sep 2023 08:31:19 -0700, Don Y
<blocked...@foo.invalid> wrote:
On 9/16/2023 5:48 AM, legg wrote:
Email to my brother started bouncing.
(receiver domain name)
SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection:
550 5.7.1 [C16] RBL Restriction:
See (web address)lookup.abusix.com/search?q=(my domain name)
What's Abusix.com when its at home and what has it got to do
with my email traffic?
You (unlikely) or someone else in your mail domain has been
regarded as a source of spam. So, your domain has likely
been blacklisted. The URL will likely give you some ideas
as to how you can "fix" the situation.
The message *suggests* you visit the URL provided for more
information on why you've been singled out thusly. It
can prove helpful if, for example, your machine has been
hacked and is being used to deliver spam.
Legit or just collecting data?
Visiting ANY <dubious> URL should always be done with caution
(AND your email client configured not to interpret HTML mail >unconditionally). But, likely worth a peek.
Or, do a web search for examples of the information they provide.It's all plain text here.
I contacted my ISP 'abuse' link and copied the details.
They've been blocked and cleared and blocked again . . .
Morons or bots at both ends of the trail.
Email to my brother started bouncing.
(receiver domain name)
SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection:
550 5.7.1 [C16] RBL Restriction:
See (web address)lookup.abusix.com/search?q=(my domain name)
What's Abusix.com when its at home
and what has it got to do with my email traffic?
Legit or just collecting data?
Sysop: | Keyop |
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Location: | Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK |
Users: | 300 |
Nodes: | 16 (2 / 14) |
Uptime: | 81:13:58 |
Calls: | 6,716 |
Files: | 12,247 |
Messages: | 5,358,072 |