E-Mail Woes Page

Known problems with the MPC's web services are listed elsewhere.

Unless otherwise indicated, all times on the this page are local times (either Eastern Standard Time or Eastern Daylight time, as appropriate).

Known Problems

• Black-listing of CfA e-mail addresses

  Mar. 31: 11:50. A number of ISPs have blacklisted CfA e-mail addresses. E-mail sent from here (circulars, ACKs, designation messages) to addresses at those ISPs are being rejected. If your ISP is on this (possibly non-exhaustive) list (the date indicating when we noticed the black-listing):
  • tin.it [20080330]
  you will have to contact them and get CfA removed from the blacklist. It is worth noting that we see a lot of SPAM with From: lines suggesting that it came from cfa.harvard.edu, but every single example had a faked From: line, as evidenced by reading the RFC-822 headers. Any ISP that blacklists CfA is doing a From:-line check only.

• New observer

  Mar. 28: 16:57. E-mail to P. Arguelles at the domain casamarciano.com, informing him of a newly-assigned observatory code has bounced with the error message "relay not permitted". Said observer should contact the MPC and supply another e-mail address.

• DISCSTATUS reports

  Feb. 21: 16:10. A number of DISCSTATUS reports have bounced back. Below are details of the problem cases:

  User francomallia .at. tin .dot. it               Mail not accepted from blacklisted IP address
  User bustersikes .at. bellsouth .dot. net         Not our customer
  User luctesi .at. tin .dot. it                    Mail not accepted from blacklisted IP address
  User efh .at. ipl .dot. jpl .dot. nasa .dot. gov  Host unknown
      

  If you are one of the recipients listed above and you have an alternate address please use the Feedback form to so inform us.

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