blakjak(a)babylon:~$ telnet smtp.xtra.co.nz 25 Trying 203.96.92.131... Connected to smtp.xtra.co.nz. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz ESMTP server ready Sat, 4 Dec 2004 17:55:38 +1300 helo xtra.co.nz 250 mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz mail from: blakjak(a)mydomain 250 Sender <blakjak(a)mydomain> Ok rcpt to: abuse(a)xtra 250 Recipient <abuse(a)xtra> Ok data 354 Ok Send data ending with <CRLF>.<CRLF> Test. . 250 Message received: 20041204045549.WBZG56.mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz(a)xtra.co.nz Seems to work ok Here. (the above deliberately mangled so that web crawlers wont pick up the addresses. The message was delivered and hasnt bounced.) Mark. (PS: heaven forbid, if worst comes to worst, you could email their helpdesk with 'i tried to send this to your abuse team, but there was an error, could you forward this on' or something to that effect) :-) On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Mike Cooper wrote:
Reporting-MTA: dns; desire.actrix.co.nz Arrival-Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 10:42:16 +1300 (NZDT) Final-Recipient: rfc822; abuse(a)xtra.co.nz Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host mta.xtra.co.nz[203.96.92.132] said: 550 Invalid recipient: <abuse(a)xtra.co.nz> (in reply to RCPT TO command)
That's of course when the address is actually functioning.
Mark Foster wrote:
Their security team do deal with all valid emails to abuse@ even if they don't acknowledge them directly. Also please bear in mind that nomatter what ISP is involved, all customers need time to be warned, and get fixed, before theyll have their accounts nuked. Its a tough call to take someone off the internet when their only hope is software that needs to be downloaded _from_ the internet...
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