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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Kinda defeats the purpose of his customer paying him to do their IT work, does it not?</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> AusNOG <ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net> on behalf of James Hodgkinson <yaleman@ricetek.net><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 11, 2018 7:30:52 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Ross Wheeler; AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] fortifiedserver.net ??</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Tell the customer to call their supplier and tell them to make a complaint to THEIR supplier? Sounds like someone's cut-rate piece of junk service is causing troubles.<br>
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James<br>
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2018, at 17:29, Ross Wheeler wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Gentlemen (and ladies!) - I'm not often stuck with no idea which way to <br>
> even begin... but I am this afternoon.<br>
> <br>
> I've a customer who has been trying to email a supplier of theirs, but the <br>
> mail keeps bouncing back. It's not the usual fat-fingered address. When I <br>
> started investigating it, I see the recipients email is handled by mx1 and <br>
> mx2.fortifiedserver.net<br>
> <br>
> When I send an email (from a different domain to my customer) to the <br>
> recipient I get an immediate bounce that says:<br>
> <br>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----<br>
> ... while talking to mx1.fortifiedserver.net.:<br>
> >>> RCPT To:<****@******.com.au><br>
> <<< 550 Sorry, we do not accept connections from you.<br>
> 550 5.1.1 <****@******.com.au>... User unknown<br>
> 451 4.4.1 reply: read error from mx1.fortifiedserver.net.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> I've checked and my mailservers are not in any blacklist I can find.<br>
> I've never been used as a spam relay, or origin of spam, the mail server <br>
> reputation on everything I've been able to find is "good". Yes, I have <br>
> proper RDNS etc and have had for decades.<br>
> <br>
> Both <a href="http://fortifiedserver.net/">http://fortifiedserver.net/</a> and <a href="https://fortifiedserver.net/">
https://fortifiedserver.net/</a> are a <br>
> waste of time.<br>
> whois fortifiedserver.net doesn't return anything useful.<br>
> Google isn't returning anything helpful or relevant.<br>
> <br>
> Anyone got any bright ideas?<br>
> <br>
> R.<br>
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