Comcast email bounces
John Chambers
jc at trillian.mit.edu
Tue Jan 17 11:05:14 EST 2006
Starting Saturday, my wife (Shelley) started seeing a lot of email to
comcast customers bounce back with a message saying that we were
abusers. Our ISP is speakeasy, and she managed to talk to a CS person
on Sunday who told her that comcast had been doing to this to email
coming via at least one of speakeasy's servers, but not all of them.
I verified that the comcast message headers identify a speakeasy
server address as the abuser, not our address.
Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas about a workaround until it gets
fixed? The speakeasy people don't seem to know of any. Their
suggestion is to keep trying until you get a server that comcast
isn't blocking. I did a bit of digging to get some better ideas, but
it seems that speakeasy only advertises mx.speakeasy.net as their
mail server, with some hidden magic parceling out the messages to the
real servers. This doesn't seem to provide an obvious way to avoid
the problem.
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