E-mail Doman Blacklisted?

[voilsb]

I tried to send an e-mail to the admin of audioslaved.com and got a server error saying I was blacklisted. Here's the message I got:

 

>Return-path: <>
Envelope-to: brian@voils.net
Delivery-date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 20:40:12 -0500
Received: from mailnull by server54.totalchoicehosting.com with local (Exim 4.24)
id 1B4VTA-0008CY-8d
for brian@voils.net; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 20:40:12 -0500
X-Failed-Recipients: postmaster@audioslaved.com
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@server54.totalchoicehosting.com>
To: brian@voils.net
Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
Message-Id: <E1B4VTA-0008CY-8d@server54.totalchoicehosting.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 20:40:12 -0500


This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

 postmaster@audioslaved.com
   SMTP error from remote mailer after initial connection:
   host mail.gawab.com [204.97.230.37]: 558 Your network address is blacklisted, this means that your network range or your server is in our blacklist. If you think you were added by mistake, please send us just an empty email from your blocked email address to blocked@gawab.biz and we will investigate this issue and remove your domain from our blacklist immediately if we found no spam reports associated with your SMTP IP. If you have an email account wit

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Return-path: <brian@voils.net>
Received: from cpanel by server54.totalchoicehosting.com with local (Exim 4.24)
id 1B4VTA-0008CT-4j
for postmaster@audioslaved.com; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 20:40:12 -0500
Received: from 24.21.144.147 ([24.21.144.147]) 
by voils.net (IMP) with HTTP 
for <brian@voils.net@localhost>; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 17:40:12 -0800
Message-ID: <1079746812.405ba0fc111ae@voils.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 17:40:12 -0800
From: Brian Voils <brian@voils.net>
To: postmaster@audioslaved.com
Subject: ftp access to help w/ gallery issue
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.2
X-Originating-IP: 24.21.144.147

 

I went ahead and followed their instructions to send a blank e-mail to blocked@gawab.biz, but I'm not sure if the flag was maybe that the reverse DNS lookup to my IP address resoved to server54 instead of to voils.net, or if TCH is for some reason blacklisted, or etc.

[Head Guru]

The issue with private blacklist operations is they are full of bad listings.

 

I have ran a check on your IP/Domain and it does not show up on any publicly maintained blacklists.

 

You have done the correct thing by contacting the person that is maintaining the list.

[voilsb]

Thanks a bunch! Now I'm even more inclined to believe it was a reverse-DNS lookup fail. (voils.net resolves to 209.152.177.64, and 209.152.177.64 resolves to server54.totalchoicehosting.com, and the apparent discrepancy flagged it as spam)