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I occasionally send email to relatives in Paris. Often the mail does not go through and I don’t get notices of this non-delivery for days after. Apparently their provider, free.fr, is blacklisting the Verizon Online IP 206.46.173.21 for too much spam (certainly not mine!). What can I do to prevent this inconvenience?

“Temporary error returned by SMTP partner.

smtp;421 Too many spams from your IP (206.46.173.21), please visit http://postmaster.free.fr/ “

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somegirl

@blacklist wrote:
I occasionally send email to relatives in Paris. Often the mail does not go through and I don’t get notices of this non-delivery for days after. Apparently their provider, free.fr, is blacklisting the Verizon Online IP 206.46.173.21 for too much spam (certainly not mine!). What can I do to prevent this inconvenience?
“Temporary error returned by SMTP partner.
smtp;421 Too many spams from your IP (206.46.173.21), please visit http://postmaster.free.fr/ “

Considering that the block is on the free.fr end and not Verizon's end, there's probably not much you can do. You could try contacting their support to see if they could whitelist the IP, but most likely they wouldn't help a non-customer. Your relatives that use their service will probably need to be the ones to make contact.

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somegirl

@blacklist wrote:
I occasionally send email to relatives in Paris. Often the mail does not go through and I don’t get notices of this non-delivery for days after. Apparently their provider, free.fr, is blacklisting the Verizon Online IP 206.46.173.21 for too much spam (certainly not mine!). What can I do to prevent this inconvenience?
“Temporary error returned by SMTP partner.
smtp;421 Too many spams from your IP (206.46.173.21), please visit http://postmaster.free.fr/ “

prisaz

@blacklist wrote:
I occasionally send email to relatives in Paris. Often the mail does not go through and I don’t get notices of this non-delivery for days after. Apparently their provider, free.fr, is blacklisting the Verizon Online IP 206.46.173.21 for too much spam (certainly not mine!). What can I do to prevent this inconvenience?

“Temporary error returned by SMTP partner.

smtp;421 Too many spams from your IP (206.46.173.21), please visit http://postmaster.free.fr/ “

Contact Verizon Support and complain.

There mail server and or IP is being blocked in Paris by X ISP. Perhaps they can get it fixed. Or have you contact in Paris complain to their ISP.

Sorry but my previous information was not correct, as pointed out in the following post's quote.

Good call Somegirl. Smiley LOL

A bit rusty.

somegirl

@prisaz wrote:
Contact Verizon Support and have them release and renew your IP address, and tell them the one you have is on a blacklist.
You can release your IP turn off your router, wait for a while, turn it on and log back in and hope you get a different address. You may have to select renew where you released your IP.
In Home Agent may do this for you, or you can try to do it manually if you do not wish to not wish to contact tech support.
https://care.verizon.net/iha/IHAPC.aspx
You will find your routers manual here if you wish to look up how to release and renew your routers address. I have also been told if you just leave it off for a while, it may get a new address. But I have also heard it could take overnight. Or you may get the same one back.
http://www.verizon.com/Support/Residential/Internet/fiosinternet/networking/user+guides/user+guides.htm
I would complain to verizon to get the IP off the black list. That would help everyone because it could be a whole block of addresses.
Spamhaus.org does not show the IP blacklisted. It must be the ISP in Paris. Verizon would need to ask them to take it off of their blacklist. or you need another IP.
I just looked up that IP here and it showed clean.
http://www.spamhaus.org/lookup/

The IP address being blocked insn't the user's individual IP, it's the IP of one of Verizon's mail servers.

prisaz

True. My bad! Somegirl is correct. Smiley Embarassed

Thinking backward.

TubeLugs

Chances are that other Verizon IP addresses are blocked as well. Just use a different email provider. Linking your email address to your *current temporary* ISP makes no sense anyway.

Think:

YourEMailName@YahooOrGMailOrHotmailOrOutlookOrAnyplaceElse.com

Then you don't have to change it just because you change your ISP.