Re: Verizon is easily fooled by spamming zombies (was: Re: VerizonWireless.com Mail Blacklists)

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

On Jun 1, 2005, at 1:54 PM, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:

> > Received: from verizon.net ([63.24.130.230])
> >
> > (63.24.130.230 is 1Cust742.an1.nyc41.da.uu.net, HELO'd as  
> > 'verizon.net'
> > and VZ still relayed it)
>
> keep in mind I'm just thinking out loud here, but is it possible that
> verizon is using someone else for dial access in places? So,  
> perhaps these
> are VZ customers doing the proper helo based on their funky mail  
> client?

You might be right.

I couldn't get to 63.24.130.230, but from my person server (which has  
no relation to VZ's network):

patrick () p8 bos/1:59PM% telnet relay.verizon.net 25
Trying 206.46.232.11...
Connected to relay.verizon.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 sv10pub.verizon.net MailPass SMTP server v1.2.0 - 013105113116JY 
+PrW ready Wed, 1 Jun 2005 12:59:33 -0500
helo patrick.verizon.net
250 sv10pub.verizon.net
mail from: patrick () verizon net
250 Sender <patrick () verizon net> OK
rcpt to: patrick () ianai net
530 5.7.1 Relaying not allowed: patrick () ianai net

This is much better than I originally thought.

Still think they should allow sending mail from their network though. :)

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TTFN,
patrick