Tag: SMTP

rblsmtpd 451 Sender has sent to LashBack

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Bounce message received:

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:

[email protected]

Malformed SMTP reply from mail.server.com [192168.1.1]
in response to initial connection:
rblsmtpd: 192.168.6.62 pid 14483: 451 Sender has sent to LashBack
Unsubscribe Probe accounts:
retry timeout exceeded

Looking further into this it appears that the sending IP address was listed in a RBL black list.  The RBL server being queried was: ubl.unsubscore.com

This in turn (www.unsubscore.com) took me to: http://www.lashback.com/support/UnsubscribeBlacklistSupport.aspx

Most RBL systems return a useful message with a URL, but, not lashback.

Quick CLI SMTP AUTH script to test authentication

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I was getting a bit bored of manually testing SMTP AUTH details for people so wrote a quick little script in perl (with help of modules) to test.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Net::SMTP_auth;
use Getopt::Std;
%options=();
getopts(“u:p:h:”,\%options);

my $_USAGE= <<END_USAGE;
test_auth.pl   -  Check SMTP authentication

Usage:   test_auth.pl -u user -p pass -h hostname

License: This software is released under the same terms as perl itself.

END_USAGE

die $_USAGE unless ($options{u} && $options{p} && $options{h});

$smtp = Net::SMTP_auth->new($options{h});
if ( $smtp->auth(‘CRAM-MD5’, $options{u}, $options{p}) ) {
print “Authenticated…\n”;
} else {
print “Authentication failed…\n”;
}