Outlook 2003 no long sending emails

[MommaYates4]

I am running Office 2003 on Windows XP for Notebooks. We have wireless
internet with AT&T using a USB modem. My emails come through my Homestead
account, and I use Outlook almost exclusively for any email activity. As of
last night, everything was going in and out without issue.

This morning I can no longer send emails, though it continues to receive
them without a hitch. The emails "bounce" immediately and to start with I
got a 554: Relay access denied error. I rebooted my computer, and now when
I send an email, I get "554 Service unavailable; Client host [166.217.159.95]
blocked using zen.dnsbl.hs;
http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=166.217.159.95"

Upon going to the spamhaus site, it says I just need to make sure my
outgoing mail settings "require authenication". Those settings are correct,
and have not been changed. And yet still, not sending email.

I checked my homestead mail, and I am able to send mail through their web
based email program, so the problem is with Outlook, not the server.

I am relatively computer savvy, but this has frustrated me to no end today!

Thank you in advance for any help you might be able to give me.

 

[N. Miller]

I am running Office 2003 on Windows XP for Notebooks. We have wireless
internet with AT&T using a USB modem. My emails come through my Homestead
account, and I use Outlook almost exclusively for any email activity. As of
last night, everything was going in and out without issue.

This morning I can no longer send emails, though it continues to receive
them without a hitch. The emails "bounce" immediately and to start with I
got a 554: Relay access denied error. I rebooted my computer, and now when
I send an email, I get "554 Service unavailable; Client host [166.217.159.95]
blocked using zen.dnsbl.hs;
http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=166.217.159.95"

Upon going to the spamhaus site, it says I just need to make sure my
outgoing mail settings "require authenication". Those settings are correct,
and have not been changed. And yet still, not sending email.

I checked my homestead mail, and I am able to send mail through their web
based email program, so the problem is with Outlook, not the server.

I am relatively computer savvy, but this has frustrated me to no end today!

Thank you in advance for any help you might be able to give me.

What mail host is your "client host" trying to connect with? Sam Spade gives
me this information about your client host:

| 01/23/09 10:30:34 dns 166.217.159.95
| nslookup 166.217.159.95
| Canonical name: mobile-166-217-159-095.mycingular.net
| Addresses:
| 166.217.159.95

And also:

| 01/23/09 10:30:25 IP block (e-mail address removed)
| Trying 166.217.159.95 at ARIN
| Trying 166.217.159 at ARIN
|
| OrgName: Service Provider Corporation
| OrgID: SPC-10
| Address: 442 Route 202-206 North
| Address: # 485
| City: Bedminster
| StateProv: NJ
| PostalCode: 07921-0523
| Country: US
|
| NetRange: 166.128.0.0 - 166.255.255.255
| CIDR: 166.128.0.0/9
| NetName: NETBLK-CDPD-B
| NetHandle: NET-166-128-0-0-1
| Parent: NET-166-0-0-0-0
| NetType: Direct Assignment
| NameServer: NS1.WIRELESSDATASPCO.ORG
| NameServer: NS.CDPDSPCO.ORG
| Comment:
| RegDate: 1993-07-09
| Updated: 2005-01-07

It looks like your client host is your actual Internet connection. If I were
to try to send from my client host of [69.105.39.83], I would also be
blocked by Spamhaus; unless I connect with a proper SMTP Message Submission
server which I am authorized to use. As an 'at&t Yahoo! HSI' customer, I am
authorized to use either 'mail.pacbell.net', or 'smtp.att.yahoo.com'. Also a
couple of others, which come with associated email services (AOL Mail,
Gmail, MyRealBox, Yahoo! 7 (Australia), and Yahoo! Japan). Trying to send
direct to any gateway mail server from my client host will fail.

 

[MommaYates4]

What mail host is your "client host" trying to connect with? Sam Spade gives
me this information about your client host:

| 01/23/09 10:30:34 dns 166.217.159.95
| nslookup 166.217.159.95
| Canonical name: mobile-166-217-159-095.mycingular.net
| Addresses:
| 166.217.159.95

And also:

| 01/23/09 10:30:25 IP block (e-mail address removed)
| Trying 166.217.159.95 at ARIN
| Trying 166.217.159 at ARIN
|
| OrgName: Service Provider Corporation
| OrgID: SPC-10
| Address: 442 Route 202-206 North
| Address: # 485
| City: Bedminster
| StateProv: NJ
| PostalCode: 07921-0523
| Country: US
|
| NetRange: 166.128.0.0 - 166.255.255.255
| CIDR: 166.128.0.0/9
| NetName: NETBLK-CDPD-B
| NetHandle: NET-166-128-0-0-1
| Parent: NET-166-0-0-0-0
| NetType: Direct Assignment
| NameServer: NS1.WIRELESSDATASPCO.ORG
| NameServer: NS.CDPDSPCO.ORG
| Comment:
| RegDate: 1993-07-09
| Updated: 2005-01-07

It looks like your client host is your actual Internet connection. If I were
to try to send from my client host of [69.105.39.83], I would also be
blocked by Spamhaus; unless I connect with a proper SMTP Message Submission
server which I am authorized to use. As an 'at&t Yahoo! HSI' customer, I am
authorized to use either 'mail.pacbell.net', or 'smtp.att.yahoo.com'. Also a
couple of others, which come with associated email services (AOL Mail,
Gmail, MyRealBox, Yahoo! 7 (Australia), and Yahoo! Japan). Trying to send
direct to any gateway mail server from my client host will fail.

Norman - Thank you for your reply, let me see if I can answer you correctly


My email should be running through smtp.telogavalleyfarm.com which is my
domain through Homestead. And I have double checked my Outlook settings and
they still have that as the outgoing server.

In theory- since I have not changed any of my Outlook settings, and we've
been using these settings for over 2 years now...all should be good. But
theory never seems to work with computers for some reason...

If Outlook is trying to connect elsewhere, incorrectly, how would I go about
figuring out why and fixing it?

Again - thank you!