[Chris W]

Originally Posted by andyl

As anyone who has read any of my other posts regarding anything vaguely technical will know, I'm a bit thick in this area. So can anyone explain the mail failure message from the NTL postmaster below, preferably in words of on syllable! Does Spamcop have a problem with NTL or the recipent, telegraph.co.uk?!

Cheers,

Andy

Reporting-MTA: dns; mta10-winn.maildmz.private.ntl.com
Arrival-Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:33:42 +0000
Received-From-MTA: dns; aamta04-winn.mailhost.ntl.com (212.250.162.8)

Final-Recipient: RFC822; <robert.peston@telegraph.co.uk>
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.3
Remote-MTA: dns; relay2.telegraph.co.uk (193.115.165.42)
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 553 5.3.0 Spam blocked, see: http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml?212.250.162.18

Spamcop has the problem with ntl-> details from spamcops site:

212.250.162.18 listed in bl.spamcop.net (127.0.0.2)

If there are no reports of ongoing objectionable email from this system it will be delisted automatically in approximately 20 hours.
Causes of listing

* System has sent mail to SpamCop spam traps in the past week (spam traps are secret, no reports or evidence are provided by SpamCop)
* SpamCop users have reported system as a source of spam about 30 times in the past week