As of about 7 p.m. EDT this evening (08/18/18), I am not able to send any emails, as I am getting the message that the HughesNet SMTP server IP address is blacklisted. Is this one of those things where I have to wait 24 hours? I know that spam traffic has been terrible of late.
Any suggestions? Thanks!
Sukie in the Hudson Valley
Turns out smtp.hughes.net [69.168.97.48] is listed on spam.dnsbl.sorbs.net (as is smtp.lithium.com [208.74.204.5], btw).
Not to be pedantic, but that shouldn't technically prevent you from sending email. Some email servers my reject receiving it, preventing the intended recipient from getting it.
How exactly are you getting notified of this? Bounce email from the receiving server, perhaps?
Edit:
Liz
Amanda
Note to admins. I did notice this in the headers. Probably want to have the tech folks fix the SPF in your DNS entry:
Received-SPF: neutral (smtp01.hughes.cmh.synacor.com: 97.73.80.47 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of hughes.net)
Setting the SPF helps to validate email from a specific domain and might alleviate getting listed on some blacklists due to forged/stolen senders coming from other email servers.
Edit2:
To do this, add a TXT record to the DNS entry that says something like:
v=spf1 a mx ip4:97.73.80.47 -all
The IP was taken from above, but it might have to be duplicated for the various servers used by Synacor (e.g., if there's a smtp02, smtp03, etc.).
Did manage to check the SPF record using a third party tester that I use for my own domain(s).
Seems the record is there (and includes quite a range of allowable IPs) but is terminated by a '?'. That's what's causing the neutral response. If the '?' is changed to a '-all' it will cause the forged emails to fail.
You can also add a TXT record to implement DMARC reporting of successful/failed emails based on SPF and DKIM (if that's also implemented - doesn't look like it though).
Hello tukatshak, apologies on the delayed response. Is this issue still ongoing for anyone?
-Brooke
Brooke wrote:Hello tukatshak, apologies on the delayed response. Is this issue still ongoing for anyone?
smtp01.hughes.cmh.synacor.com is currently listed on:
Dear Brooke,
Wow. 9 days to get a response?
My issue lasted at least 24 hours. During this time, both native WebMail, and my popped Outlook account were completely hosed. Then things righted themselves. I have no way of knowing what happened in the background.
MarkJFine, bless his heart, has been trying to report all the places where HughesNet is blocked or reported on spam lists. I hope someone at HughesNet will now look into this.
Thank you for inquiring. Now, if HughesNet would just stop all the spammers from using our addresses to produce spam....so we don't get on the bad lists....
tukatshak wrote:Dear Brooke,
Wow. 9 days to get a response?
This is the General Discussion section. It's not meant for support, which is clearly stated in the section description.
If you have a future technical issue with which you would like help from a HughesNet representative I suggest posting in the Tech Support section to get that help.
