Selective E-mail Forwarding?

Tom

New Member
I could use some help with e-mail forwarding, as I'm having some intermittent issues with it.

I have an e-mail address (tom@alberg35.org) that forwards to my account with Time-Warner (alley@stny.rr.com). Most of the time, this works just fine. However, certain people are unable to send me e-mail and it bounces back to them as undeliverable. This seems to be domain-specific. For example, any e-mail from accounts at "...@usps.org" do not get delivered and the sender is sent a message saying that my provider is blocking delivery. How can I troubleshoot what's going on here?

Thanks in advance for your replies.

Tom
 

sandy

Administrator
Staff member
can you please reply with a copy of the full returned message headers?

thanks
sandy
 

Tom

New Member
Unfortunately I can't, because I cannot duplicate the problem and it is an external mail server that's having difficulty. The only message I get is that the external mail server (usps.org) "...is being blocked by the alberg35.org mail server."

I'll see if I can't get more detailed troubleshooting information from their IT folks, but so far they haven't been helpful.

I don't know if it's related or not, but for some reason I cannot set up a mail forward to AOL addresses. I can configure them, but when I send mail it won't go through. Any ideas?
 

sandy

Administrator
Staff member
when sending to an AOL address.. do you get a non delivered message in return?
 

Tom

New Member
I remember getting some before. I sent another message Tuesday morning to see if I could get more details, but nothing was returned. I called the recipient to see if my e-mail arrived, and that didn't happen either. (This was several hours later, so I don't think latency is an issue.) Very frustrating -- nothing is happening and I can't get any diagnostic information to figure out why.
 

Tom

New Member
Sandy: Well, I finally got a "bounce" from the note I sent last week. Here are the headers & body of the message.

Tom
_________________________________

Mail Delivery System

To: alleytm@gmail.com
Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
X-Forwarded-For: alleytm@gmail.com tom@alberg35.org
X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=beblUY/B c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=LMl1d6bLky+vYywKe+BVrA==:117 a=LMl1d6bLky+vYywKe+BVrA==:17 a=ayC55rCoAAAA:8 a=0oj8HZZGiqAA:10 a=JRv2puKmAAAA:8 a=1XWaLZrsAAAA:8 a=HpWyMqnf4hoA:10 a=HFcG5fkciocA:10 a=uRRa74qj2VoA:10 a=vX-N2HuyvEP-EhXdXtwA:9 a=3oc9M9_CAAAA:8 a=m9wmmNRzG3RnX796Uw4A:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=JtEM4NOTtTUA:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=6Qyj_6-91H1aYsZooWgA:9 a=hAFUY--7EKMA:10 a=vGnuy9pMAAAA:8 a=oLh571eQa2GorhxjfmwA:9 a=9GYJyUbZLUkA:10 a=Jq0SWmtf6XAA:10 a=qGiyuRA8TfMiO0k-VNgA:9 a=ATT90JJI8wO_mBDt:21 a=_W_S_7VecoQA:10
X-Received: by 10.52.232.225 with SMTP id tr1mr2311921vdc.0.1439826423003; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 08:47:03 -0700 (PDT)
X-Received: by 10.182.224.194 with SMTP id re2mr1762980obc.24.1439826421796; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 08:47:01 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <alleytm+caf_=tom=alberg35.org@gmail.com>
Return-Path: <alleytm+caf_=tom=alberg35.org@gmail.com>
X-Rr-Connecting-Ip: 107.14.64.106:25
X-Forwarded-To: tom@alberg35.org
Mime-Version: 1.0
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of mailfwd1.zoneedit.com designates 23.27.50.10 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=
Message-Id: <20150817154700.1963F2788CA8@mailfwd1.zoneedit.com>
X-Cloudmark-Score: 0
X-Google-Dkim-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-original-authentication-results:delivered-to:date:from:subject:to :auto-submitted:mime-version:content-type:message-id; bh=9gvecI3iarmXq//jaGBDkp4O0VLzwqsLDeLfLpj5+34=; b=l/s77knB9E3vAEXxGuc9w35kERK0NJXgIIa3AjmQjIXpIeHQYsqEP486siBEga6Su8 nnMim8mQH57E1o1xuLIXj/duWoWUKME2OjK4NnEU5KAJzOQgiPHSY9phJlvkF2LzeC0A zZpIJScET7NKkZuXOmP/LJKIU7FlYnjsyXrDJacFBODFvLckkQHZt3pu3MzolVqWzCuv 4wFOVrX1RkqtukC7Y9ZCKaWKawbL2gPVqlZutseu8lRmmmhxaMgLt6H/sDASnPxJgxOR 1n4RKNkgJJCPZjGgpmUfTb2TIs/lup/sft5LGYJZj/g3dQ9ayp8bcppJ/hBcswpYUHil f/Cg==
X-Original-Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of mailfwd1.zoneedit.com designates 23.27.50.10 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=
Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status; boundary="19125278C7A8.1439826420/mailfwd1.zoneedit.com"
Received-Spf: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of mailfwd1.zoneedit.com designates 23.27.50.10 as permitted sender) client-ip=23.27.50.10;
Delivered-To: alleytm@gmail.com
Received: from dnvrco-pub-iedge-vip.email.rr.com ([107.14.70.245]) by dnvrco-fep01.email.rr.com (InterMail vM.8.04.01.13 201-2343-100-167-20131028) with ESMTP id <20150817154707.TNYZ9108.dnvrco-fep01.email.rr.com@dnvrco-pub-iedge-vip.email.rr.com> for <alley@stny.rr.com>; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 15:47:07 +0000
Received: from [166.88.18.34] ([166.88.18.34:39658] helo=mailfwd2.zoneedit.com) by dnvrco-iedge06 (envelope-from <alleytm+caf_=tom=alberg35.org@gmail.com>) (ecelerity 3.5.0.35861 r(Momo-dev:tip)) with ESMTP id C7/5A-11616-AF102D55; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 15:47:06 +0000
Received: from mail-vk0-f43.google.com (mail-vk0-f43.google.com [209.85.213.43]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailfwd2.zoneedit.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5D8D52026F3F for <tom@alberg35.org>; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 08:47:04 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by vkaw128 with SMTP id w128so25680576vka.1 for <tom@alberg35.org>; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 08:47:03 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.31.225.7 with SMTP id y7csp1278462vkg; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 08:47:01 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mailfwd1.zoneedit.com (mailfwd1.zoneedit.com. [23.27.50.10]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id o133si10423125oih.142.2015.08.17.08.47.01 for <alleytm@gmail.com>; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 08:47:01 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by mailfwd1.zoneedit.com (Postfix) id 1963F2788CA8; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 11:47:00 -0400 (EDT)

Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

This is the mail system at host mailfwd1.zoneedit.com.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.

For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster.

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.

The mail system

<mhcrouse@aol.com> (expanded from <crouse@flyc.us>): delivery temporarily
suspended: host mailin-01.mx.aol.com[64.12.91.195] refused to talk to me:
554- (RTR:BL) http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554rtrbl.html 554
Connecting IP: 23.27.50.10
Reporting-MTA: dns; mailfwd1.zoneedit.com
X-Postfix-Queue-ID: 19125278C7A8
X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; alleytm@gmail.com
Arrival-Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 11:04:18 -0400 (EDT)

Final-Recipient: rfc822; mhcrouse@aol.com
Original-Recipient: rfc822;crouse@flyc.us
Action: failed
Status: 4.0.0
Remote-MTA: dns; mailin-01.mx.aol.com
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 554- (RTR:BL)
http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554rtrbl.html 554 Connecting IP:
23.27.50.10

From: Thomas Alley <alleytm@gmail.com>
Subject: Test E-mail
Date:
August 7, 2015 at 11:04:15 EDT
To: Director Crouse <crouse@flyc.us>


Mike:
Please reply if you get this.
Tom
________________________________________________________________________
Thomas Alley
tom@alberg35.org
 

sandy

Administrator
Staff member
Hi Thomas.

just a quick follow up to ses how things are going mail forwarding wise... and thanks for the mail headers as well :)

sandy
 

Tom

New Member
Hi Sandy.

No change in behavior. Forwarded messages still bounce after a few days with the message that the mail server on the receiving end (AOL.com) will not accept messages, but if I send a message directly to the target address, it goes through just fine.
 

sandy

Administrator
Staff member
Hi Tom.

we have sent a block removal request to AOL last week but have not yet received a reply. How is it on your end presently?

thanks
sandy
 

Tom

New Member
Hi, Sandy.

Hope you had a good Labor Day weekend! I haven't noticed any changes, but then I haven't been looking for any.

I sent out another test message today and we'll see what happens. It usually takes 3-4 days before I get a notice that it has been blocked/denied/not delivered.

Tom
 
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