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Monday 10 November, 2003
#AOL anti-spam - Close, but no cigar ...
From: Mail Delivery System 
To: evknguz@jezuk.co.uk
Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
Message-Id: 
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 15:52:53 +0000

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

  stvn342003@aol.com
    SMTP error from remote mailer after initial connection:
    host mailin-03.mx.aol.com [64.12.138.120]: 554- (RTR:SC)  The information presently available to AOL indicates
    554- that this server has been repeatedly used to transmit unsolicited
    554- bulk e-mail to AOL.  Based on AOL's e-mail policies at
    554- http://postmaster.info.aol.com/standards.html, AOL cannot accept
    554- further e-mail transactions from this server for an extended
    554- period of time.  Please have your ISP/ASP contact AOL to resolve
    55

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------

Return-path: 
Received: from user-1864.bbd15tcl.dsl.pol.co.uk ([81.77.183.72])
	by tmailt1.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.14)
	id 1AIrrw-0003NF-Hp; Sun, 09 Nov 2003 15:52:52 +0000
Received: from 172.3.67.45 by 81.77.183.72; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 02:48:01 -0200
Message-ID: 
From: "Dee Corbin" 
Reply-To: "Dee Corbin" 
To: touchgoddess007@aol.com
Subject: Brand name meds at 70% off. 38881223232
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 03:51:01 -0100
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
	boundary="--02141612184245916473"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-IP: 172.40.88.91

Blah-de-blah some normal spam rubbish 

AOL refuse an email on the grounds that it's spam coming from an address that's sent them spam in the past. Congrats AOL. So why send the email saying so to a blatently forged return address?

pol.co.uk is Energis, so we can see this mail was routed through an Energis broadband subscriber, who probably doesn't even realise they are running an open mail relay. 172.3.67.45 is an unassigned address, so that's probably been hijacked.

Forwarding to abuse@energis, for all the good it'll do anyone.

MFausey said AOL does not like the return-path header field. Try removing it and your problem will be fixed. [added 13th May 2005]
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