[Mailman-Users] Sending to Verizon users.

[Barry Finkel]

User for Mailman mail list wrote:
>>
>>Banging my head against the wall ( and it hurts..)
>>
>>On the different list from our Mailman mail list server, the mail goes out
>>fine except for users with a "verizon.net" address. Here is a typical
>>syslog entry:
>>
>>Jun 26 12:57:29 secure sm-mta[13001]: k5QJv2Gt012804:
>>to=<auser at verizon.net>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=176103,
>>relay=relay.verizon.net. [206.46.232.11], dsn=5.0.0, stat=Service unavailable
>>
>>
>>But if I send that user an email from that same server (but not from
>>Mailman) the log shows:
>>
>>Jun 26 14:23:05 secure sendmail[15184]: k5QLN5UB015181:
>>to=<auser at verizon.net>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=120295,
>>relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (k5QLN5kD015185 Message accepted for delivery)
>>
>>Jun 26 14:23:12 secure sm-mta[15195]: k5QLN5kD015185: to=<auser at verizon.net>, delay=00:00:07,
>>xdelay=00:00:07, mailer=esmtp, pri=120469, relay=relay.verizon.net.
>>[206.46.232.11], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (2.5.0 Ok.)
>>
>>
>>I'm at a loss. All the other mail gets delivered properly but not the
>>verizon.net mail.

And Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net> replied:

> Verizon doesn't like something in the transaction from Mailman.

I have had problems in the past sending mail to verizon.net.  I could
not even send mail to postmaster at verizon.net.  I believe that Verizon
has some anti-spam filter that does not accept a lot of legitimate mail.
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