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If you haven't already I would use mxtoolbox.com to double check and make sure you're not still on someones list. If you have multiple MX records make sure both are clean.<br />
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MO
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yes, we did that and they are all clear now. &nbsp;Since yesterday morning.... &nbsp;will the other sites like gmail automatically clear after a time out period?
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Can you post an undeliverable of one message sent to a Yahoo address and one sent to a Gmail address?<br />
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MO
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Delivery has failed to these recipients or distribution lists:<br />
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wlasner@gmail.com<br />
Your message wasn't delivered because of security policies. Microsoft Exchange will not try to redeliver this message for you. Please provide the following diagnostic text to your system administrator.<br />
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The following organization rejected your message: mx.google.com.<br />
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Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.<br />
..........................<wbr />..........<wbr />..........<wbr />..........<wbr />..........<wbr />..........<wbr />..........<wbr />..........<wbr />..........<wbr />..........<wbr />..........<wbr />........<br />
yahoo<br />
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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Subject: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;test<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Sent: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;10/7/2011 10:58 AM<br />
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The following recipient(s) cannot be reached:<br />
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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 'shahmasroor@yahoo.com' on 10/7/2011 10:58 AM<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; None of your e-mail accounts could send to this recipient.<br />

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To remove from Gmails servers: <a href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=msgdelivery" rel="ugc nofollow">http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=msgdelivery</a><br />
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To remove from Yahoos servers: <a href="http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/defer.html" rel="ugc">http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/defer.html</a><br />
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OK, I filled out the forms as best as possibel, we will see. &nbsp;Any iea how long it take to get off these lists?
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OK, so I have a rule in place that prevents any mail from &quot;postmaster@ablehealthcare<wbr />.com&quot; from getting out of our system which takes care of the spam issue that caused us to be blocked by these providers. &nbsp;But - spam is still being generated internal and then crushed by the security applications.<br />
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I cannot seem to find the source of it.<br />
Event log:<br />
Event Type: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Warning<br />
Event Source: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange<br />
Event Category: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Content Enforcement Rules<br />
Event ID: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;291<br />
Date: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;10/7/2011<br />
Time: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2:04:45 PM<br />
User: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;N/A<br />
Computer: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;EXCH<br />
Description:<br />
The message &quot;Undeliverable: ¿&quot; located in SMTP has violated the following policy settings:<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Scan: Auto-Protect<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Rule: filter by sender<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Violating term(s): <br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Postmaster@ablehealthcare.<wbr />com<br />
The following actions were taken on it:<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The message &quot;Undeliverable: ¿&quot; was marked for Deletion for the following reason(s):<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A Filtering Rule was violated.<br />

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The delisting can take up to 48 hours. <br />
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So back up for a second. The issue that led to this problem is that your exchange server was sending postmaster undeliverable messages to external recipients? <br />
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MO
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I seems the most of the outgoing spam was sent by postmaster@ablehealthcare.<wbr />com (my domain).<br />
To stop the outgoing spam I set a policy in my Mail security for exchange to prevent any mail to be sent by that user name.<br />
The quarentine is empty and the logs have no errors since last week so hopefully I have eliminated the source through virus scans aon all pc's and servers.<br />
It has been almost 5 days, still blocked on both sites (yahoo and google). &nbsp;
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Did you investigate why the &quot;postmaster&quot; account was sending out messages? I typically see a flood of these messages if someone external has spammed you with a bunch of ilegitmate alias' on your domain and the postmaster feels obligated to let the spammer know that the addresses don't exist.<br />
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I don't think it's a good idea to just simply prevent your postmaster address from sending replies. You're going to hurt yourself down the road when legitimate senders try to send something out and accidentally misspell the recipients address. They won't get a reply from the postmaster letting them know of their mistake.<br />
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Instead, I would check to find the real source of the flurry of postmaster messages that landed you on a blacklist. Perhaps tighten up your inbound filtering if the source of the issue is indeed related to a spam blast on your network.<br />
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MO
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You might consider subscribing to better cloud based email filtering. We've moved almost all our clients off of Symantec Mail Security for Exchange because it's simply not adequate and uses too much resources.<br />
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MO
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could ports 500 and 4500 being open be part of the issue or only port 25?
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Unless you have your SMTP listening on ports 500 and 4500 I doubt it. By default the SMTP virtual server listens on TCP25.<br />
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Check your tracking logs and search by &quot;postmaster&quot;. That will give you an idea of why the postmaster was sending messages out. You might find that it was in reply to a bunch of spam messages.<br />
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Our ip address (MX) has been Blacklisted. &nbsp;We found issues on our domian and corrected them. &nbsp;all the lists show us clear now but Google and yahoo still will not accept e-mails from us.<br />
I did fill out a form for yahoo but have not been able to find any information on how to contact google (gmail) to get off their blocked list.<br />
this is really urgent for us.<br />
thanks<br />
Wayne
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Our ip address (MX) has been Blacklisted.  We found issues on our domian and corrected them.  all the lists show us clear now but Google and yahoo still will not accept e-mails from us.
I did fill out a form for yahoo but have not been able to find any information on how to contact google (gmail) to get off their blocked list.
this is really urgent for us.
thanks
Wayne

How to remove exchange server that is blacklisted

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