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Hi Experts,

It appears Bellsouth.net (aka Att.net)  has made some further adjustments to their mail security that are causing more a few of my clients to have mail bounceback issues.   These are not new installs, One exchange server has been up for 4 years with no changes of note.

We are not receiving a specific error message in return to help obtain the exact issue.  Currently the affected clients are all on Exchange 2003, REV DNS is configured, No special firewall router/spam filtering.

Error message is as follows


Delivery to the following recipients has been delayed
Reporting-MTA: dns;mycompany.com

Final-Recipient: accountID ;username@bellsouth.net
Action: delayed
Status: 4.4.7
Will-Retry-Until: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:35:36 -0500
X-Display-Name: User Name(lusername@bellsouth.net)
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Hmm, have you tried flushing your DNS on your mailservers and trying again - perhaps a stale record with a long TTL is causing issues? Bit of a long shot, but stranger things have happened!
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Let me also add, that I can ping bellsouths mail servers (mail.bellsouth.net) but I cannot telnet to it.... Actually I can no longer telnet to them from ANY of my client networks.

Here is my record tests
Banner: mycompany.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 6.0.3790.3959 ready at Wed, 6 Feb 2008 10:43:54 -0500 [47 ms]  
Connect Time: 0.047 seconds - Good
Transaction Time: 10.421 seconds - Not good!
Relay Check: OK - This server is not an open relay.
Rev DNS Check: OK - 33.33.33.34 resolves to mail.mycompany.com
GeoCode Info: Geocoding server is unavailable
Session Transcript: HELO mxtoolbox.com - DIAGNOSTIC TEST - See http://www.mxtoolbox.com/Policy.aspx 
501 5.5.4 Invalid Address [5078 ms]
HELO mxtoolbox.com
250 mycompany.com Hello [64.20.227.131] [78 ms]
MAIL FROM: <test@mxtoolbox.com>
250 2.1.0 test@mxtoolbox.com....Sender OK [47 ms]
RCPT TO: <test@mxtoolbox.com>
550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for test@mxtoolbox.com [5078 ms]
QUIT
221 2.0.0 mycompany.com Service closing transmission channel [47 ms]
 
Hmm, sounds like they are actively blocking your IP range. Have you tried phoning there support and enquiring? Is your mail server sending RFC compliant commads?
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That was a guess as well.  I tried telneting to mail.bellsouth.net over 5 different networks... all with the same result.    There is no traffic warning, I've already gone ahead a petitioned for IP reinstatement, but wouldn't I expect a 5.5.x fail if it was an IP block?
Not necessarily, 4.4.7 is just it giving up - and remember, who said the block was on the the host? It could be on their border devices.

The 5 different networks, are they on different netblocks?
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All unique.... even picked a few different ISPs,  nuvox, paetech, TimeWarner etc etc
I'm having the exact same problem with a client not being able to send mail to a bellsouth.net (At&T) account.  Have you been able to determine a fix for this?  I cannot get AT&T to respond to my email.
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