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SMTP server blacklisted?
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 wh...
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: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....
Pretty sure changing that softfail '?' to hardfail '-all' in the DNS SPF record might help to do that as long as all three smtp IPs I mentioned as well as 'a' and 'mx' are included.
Might be advantageous to employ DKIM if possible, but that may not be practical.
