[PLUG] Postfix allows spam in but blocks report

[Russ Johnson]

Looks to me like qwest added you to their local rejection list. salmo is 
unable to establish a connection, so it's letting you know.

At 10:34 AM 5/22/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>   This puzzles me. I received a spam message originating at ...qwest.net.
>I've received a few more (mostly from Russia, as this one is) and I forward
>them to abuse at qwest.net without problems. Until today.
>
>   When I tried this, the local mailer-daemon rejects the message (the
>outgoing one) as spam! I don't have qwest's IP block in a checked file so I
>don't understand why I get this bounce.
>
>   The bounced mail starts:
>
>This is the Postfix program at host salmo.
>
>I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
>below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.
>
>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 message returned below.
>
>                         The Postfix program
>
><abuse at qwest.net>: This site does not accept spam.
>
>     [ Part 2: "Delivery error report" ]
>
>Reporting-MTA: dns; salmo
>Arrival-Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 10:26:25 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Final-Recipient: rfc822; abuse at qwest.net
>Action: failed
>Status: 5.0.0
>Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; This site does not accept spam.
>
>   Can someone help me to understand this?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Rich
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Russ Johnson
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