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For people on spacey having trouble with Mac Mail

When spacey moved, the IP for the email host changed to 208.113.200.50. It’s come to my attention that this has been causing problems with a lot of people receiving and sending email, especially if they had originally followed the wiki article for Mac Mail where you had to alter /etc/hosts . If you did this and you are on spacey, you either need to update /etc/hosts (with the IP above) or start using “spacey.mail.dreamhost.com” as your email server. That should fix most of the issues with this. Of course if you are still having problems after this, feel free to write into support.

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8 Responses to “For people on spacey having trouble with Mac Mail”

  1. bernie Says:
    December 3rd, 2007 at 12:01 pm

    actually, you might want to let anyone know that if they have custom MX records - like us - this was affected as well - but then again they might already know this as the mail would still be down… than again, maybe not as the old spacey address still answers for mail requests but does not actually serve up the request.

  2. David Knowles Says:
    December 4th, 2007 at 11:44 am

    Having same problem…

    using “spacey.mail.dreamhost.com” hasn’t worked for me?

  3. Hauser Says:
    December 5th, 2007 at 5:23 pm

    I’m unable to send mail now. It was working earlier today.

    I am also using “spacey.mail.dreamhost.com” via Mac Mail.

  4. xmd Says:
    December 5th, 2007 at 6:39 pm

    Also using Mac mail, NOT using spacey, and SMTP has been failing for about an hour for all my dh accounts! Something seems wrong… I’ve not edited /etc/hosts…

  5. xmd Says:
    December 5th, 2007 at 6:41 pm

    Support history says they are aware of the outage as of about 615pm

  6. db Says:
    December 5th, 2007 at 7:12 pm

    xmd did you get your problem fixed?

  7. Nathan Says:
    December 5th, 2007 at 11:23 pm

    panel.dreamhost.com is down, so i’m unable to report this appropriately. I’m unable to access my site’s admin because it says my IP has been blacklisted. I’ve tried from different IP addresses but the error continues (so it’s not actually my IP but dreamhost). This happened just following the Spacey move, which makes me suspicious.

    Error 403

    We’re sorry, but we could not fulfill your request for /wp-login.php on this server.

    Your Internet Protocol address is listed on a blacklist of addresses involved in malicious or illegal activity. See the listing below for more details on specific blacklists and removal procedures.

    Your technical support key is: 4408-40ac-1366-73cd

    You can use this key to fix this problem yourself.

    If you are unable to fix the problem yourself, please contact *** at nathangibbs.com and be sure to provide the technical support key shown above.

  8. flo Says:
    December 6th, 2007 at 2:51 am

    @Nathan:

    check this link: http://error.wordpress.com/2005/09/30/what-to-do-when-bad-behavior-blocks-you-or-your-friends/

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