Subject: workaround for messages from Pine blocked?

From: Bruce Cohen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 15:49:34 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time)

Does anyone have any idea for a workaround for the following
situation?

I am starting to get bounces from a couple of addresses to which I
regularly send messages with no problems in the past. I think that the
respective providers have recently installed spam blockers which think
that I am spam. One of the reasons is possibly that the address I use
([email-masked]) no longer matches the names for the various
servers at the provider (xxxxx.tiscali.nl: worldonline was bought by
tiscali a couple of years ago, but the worldonline.nl addresses are kept
active). If I change my sending address to [email-masked] mail seems to
go through with no problems, but I would like a different workaround if
possible, as I would like to keep the old email address.

Is there something I can add to the header in Pine to satisfy whatever
RCPT TO these spam checkers are looking for?

Both error messages follow:

Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host smtp.chello.nl[213.46.243.2] said: 551
Mail from your IP address is currently blocked based on RBL listing
(in reply to RCPT TO command)

Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host mx.dds.nl[213.204.195.153] said: 451 Blocked - see
    http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml?195.241.76.186 (in reply to RCPT TO
    command)

Any ideas?

Thanks

Bruce Cohen

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From: Mats Dufberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 16:34:09 +0100 (CET)

>     http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml?195.241.76.186 (in reply to RCPT TO

Have you looked at <http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml?195.241.76.186>? Is
195.241.76.186 a fixed address of yours or do you get is dynamically? In
the firs case you should check your system and scrutinize what you have
sent, in the latter case you should contact you ISP and report the problem
and require that you get a new IP address.

Mats

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 08:44:14 -0800 (PST)

>     http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml?195.241.76.186 (in reply to RCPT TO

This has nothing to do with Pine.  The problem is that your source IP
address (which appears to be 195.241.76.185, ha-smtp0.tiscali.nl) is
blacklisted.  You'll need to talk to your ISP about this, since they are
the only ones who can fix the problem.

According to spamcop.net:

   195.241.76.186 listed in bl.spamcop.net (127.0.0.2)

   Since SpamCop started counting, this system has been reported about 40
   times by about 20 users. It has been sending mail consistently for at
   least 58.7 days. In the past 9.8 days, it has been listed 3 times for
   a total of 2.5 days
   In the past week, this system has:
     * Been reported as a source of spam less than 10 times
     * Been witnessed sending mail about 1890 times

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