[ILUG] Message-ID not being set by eircom?

[Justin Mason]

John Gay said:

> Message-ID not being set

You'd really be better off setting this in the MUA.  It's quite a spam
sign.  (we don't test for it in SpamAssassin due to FPs though, but
some folks run hair-trigger spam filters.)

> Your mail provider is on several blacklists.  The RFC-Ignorant one is
> the most severe, because you have to be *really* stupid to run an ISP
> in such a fashion as to meet the rfc-ignorant criteria.  I would suggest
> that you find a new ISP; eircom really does suck (I get as much spam
> from them as I do from any of the major US ISPs).

yep, *still* on several DNSBLs.

However the DSBL listing now seems to be a multi-hop one; seiko.ie's MX is
an open relay, which then relays via eircom.net as a totally-legit "smart
host" relay.  In other words it's seiko.net which is f**ked, not
eircom.net, as far as I can see.

http://www.dsbl.org/listing.php?ip=159.134.118.16

But rfc-ignorant listing seems valid; the issue is that eircom.net does
not provide a valid email addr in its whois data to contact when abuse
occurs.

http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/tools/detail.php?domain=159.134.0.0/16&submitted=1036446680&table=ipwhois

> I know that some people on this list have connections with eircom.net so I 
> was hoping that this would be quicker than trying the support list, which 
> I've not had much luck with in the past. Seems they're only interested if I 
> call at 58 cent per minute.

i'd be interested too.  It's very embarrassing me having to defend
eircom.net on several anti-spam mailing lists as a matter of national
pride ;)

--j.