emails to verizon wireles (vtext.com) being refused beacuse of spam filter put in place friday

[RobertCarback]

Since Friday at 5 pm Verizon has started using a spam filter that is refusing emails/pages I am send to verizon wireless users (9999999999@vtext.com). I have my sendmail.cf file setup with masquerade of --
DMMobilexUSA.com

and I when I send the email to my outlook account (bob.carback@mobilexusa.com) it shows as coming from root@MobilexUSA.com, but when I send to 9999999999@vtext.com and I get this back in /var/spool/mqueue ---

more qfm29L16N03526
V4
T1205096466
K1205161590
N37
P3360180
I64/8/34239
MDeferred: Connection timed out with vtext.com.
Fwb
$_vsimon@localhost
Svsimon
Aroot@mxpddf01.corp.mobilexusa.com
RPFD:9999999999@vtext.com
H?P?Return-Path:
H??Received: (from vsimon@localhost)
by mxpddf01.corp.mobilexusa.com (8.11.1 (PHNE_35485)/8.11.1) id m29L16N03526
for 9999999999@vtext.com; Sun, 9 Mar 2008 17:01:06 -0400 (EDT)
H?D?Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 17:01:06 -0400 (EDT)
H?F?From: Vsifax Monitor
H?x?Full-Name: Vsifax Monitor
H?M?Message-Id: <200803092101.m29L16N03526@mxpddf01.corp.mobilexusa.com>
H??To: 9999999999@vtext.com
H??Subject: mxfax01
H??Mime-Version: 1.0
H??Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
H??Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
.

[OldSchool]

Suggest you re-try it. I was able to send e-mail to cell via vtext.com w/o issue (other than slow.....like 10 minutes transit time)

the above says it timed out, not sure how you got to "spam filter" from there

[RobertCarback]

Verizon said they added spam filtering and it is a nationwide issue. When I attempt to go to verizonwireless website and send a text message from the website it now asks us to enter a security code.

[OldSchool]

the security code on the website *shouldn't* impact your ability to send text msg via e-mail.

as I noted above, I'm still able to send messages from office to cell phones via vtext.com w/o issue other than slowness (at least as of today)

Have they identified the problem or have a resolution for it?

[RobertCarback]

no they have not corrected or found a go-around. In the meantime if I relay through my exchange server, it works

[Tim Nelson · Accepted solution]

In the past I have always Smart Relayed off of our official Exchange server.

Most paging servers will attempt to reverse lookup the "From" address. If you masquarade your "From" address is still probably a non-world DNS entry.

[RobertCarback]

Thanks for the help.

[RobertCarback]

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