[okfn-help] okfn.org email bouncing?

Thu Aug 25 13:16:10 UTC 2011

Thank you very much for looking into this Jason!

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Jason Kitcat <jason.kitcat at okfn.org> wrote:
> Sadly okfn.org has been registered on a real-time black list for spamming on http://www.uribl.com
>
> I have registered and requested delisting. I guess our sysadmins should check we've not been exploited In some way somewhere which is pumping out spam.
>
> All the best,
> Jason
>
>
> On 24 Aug 2011, at 18:48, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>
>> In addition to the University of Southampton, I now cannot email any
>> European Commission addresses, which is a bit of a problem!
>>
>> I get the following error:
>>
>> "Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
>>
>> [email address]
>>
>> Technical details of permanent failure:
>> Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the
>> recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for
>> further information about the cause of this error. The error that the
>> other server returned was: 550 550 5.7.1 Message rejected because of
>> spam characteristics (state 18)."
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>>> I've just had a couple of emails bounce today. Initially I assumed it
>>> was the recipient's email address not working. But after it happened a
>>> few times I noticed this in the bounced email:
>>>
>>> "The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 5.7.1 rejected
>>> content, black listed blog.okfn.org by black.uribl.com."
>>>
>>> This doesn't sound so hot. Any ideas what it means? Is okfn.org
>>> blacklisted? Has spam been sent out using the OKF domain somehow?
>>>
>>> J.
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>
>>> Technical details of permanent failure:
>>> Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the
>>> recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for
>>> further information about the cause of this error. The error that the
>>> other server returned was: 550 550 5.7.1 rejected content, black
>>> listed blog.okfn.org by black.uribl.com. #762 #895
>>> (n7NHY2045663399500) (state 18).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jonathan Gray
>>>
>>> Community Coordinator
>>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
>>> http://blog.okfn.org
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Gray
>>
>> Community Coordinator
>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
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>>
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> Jason Kitcat
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>
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>
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>
>

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