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  • 1.  501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Jan 13, 2015 09:56 AM

    I have a dedicated IP mail server that for some reason is on the Symantec blacklist.  We're not on any other blacklists when checked by mxtoolbox and similar tools.  rDNS is setup properly, same as SPF and DKIM.  I just don't get it!  We're not listed on this URL either, http://ipremoval.sms.symantec.com/lookup/

     

    We can't get help from Symantec as we're not a customer.  We are getting bouncebacks when sending out quotes to new clients or prospective business partners.  It isn't very prudent to ask them to contact Symantec for us. 

     

    Please help!

     

     

      SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection:
       host cluster8.eu.messagelabs.com [85.158.139.51]:
       501 Connection rejected by policy [7.7] 18009, please visit www.messagelabs.com/support for more details about this error message.



  • 2.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Jun 18, 2015 10:25 AM

     

    2463

    Some problem here. Can anyone from Symantec  comment please?



  • 3.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]
    Best Answer

    Posted Jun 18, 2015 12:10 PM

    Hello,

    The Symantec cloud services are managed almost entirely by the clients. They have tools to reviews emails sent to them, along with ways to report issues, query blacklists with the cloud support team to gain insight on the senders that attempts to send them mail.

    With that in mind, it is indeed best to reach out to the recipient and advised them their Symantec Cloud service is blocking their attempt to send email. They often have ways to review these emails and take action to receive them while working with Cloud support to gain more insight on the any email delivery issues that are reported.

    Ultimately, it is the recipient's prerogative on how they wish to configure the cloud service and work with the support team in regards to the emails they receive. With that being said, I do still invite you to send an email to support.cloud@symantec.com along with any bounce and information on the sending IP of the server clearly identified in the email. In some cases we may be able to do a preliminary investigation which can often help reach a resolution with the help of the Cloud client.

    In regards to the help page itself, I apologize in regards to the link, please use the below link until further notice.

    http://www.symanteccloud.com/troubleshooting



  • 4.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Nov 10, 2015 04:39 AM

    I too have this problem. However, B.Beaulieu, Your stock answer is insufficient. When every client that uses Symantec protections is blocking emails, then it is obviosly a global Symantec policy and not individual client's settings. When all these are blocking at once, it s obviously not the client setting up the blocking.

     

    So, who do we contact to get Symantec to release a specific IP address or server from their block list.

     

    In my case, it is obviously the shared IP that my hosting company has because they have even set up a named server for me that is still being blocked. 

     

    It is business suicide to do what you suggest and contact every client/potential client to unblock us. There could be thousands and the damage to reputations is irreperable. 

     

     



  • 5.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jan 21, 2016 06:46 AM

    Hi JohnMcPool,

    Please provide me your sending IP and I will investigate further. Please accept our apologies for the disruption to your email flow caused by this bounce error.

    Kind regards

    Dave Parker

    Principal Technical Support Engineer



  • 6.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Jan 21, 2016 11:34 AM

    Dave,

     

    Thanks for looking into this.

     

    My IP address is 77.97.104.237

     

    The ip addresses of my domains are 69.50.193.207 and  69.50.195.57

     

    I am using Outlook 2010 as a mail client.

     

    Any possibility we can correspond by email about this as it's been two and a half months and I'm getting not joy out of your support system. mcd1507@virginmedia.com

     

    Regards

     

    John



  • 7.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Jan 25, 2016 01:19 PM

    Dave,

     

    I have just got email you sent a mesage via my contact form. I can't seem to reply.

     

    Thanks again for looking into this, I await further infromation.

     

    John

     



  • 8.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Jan 29, 2016 05:40 AM

    Hello Dave,

    I have the some problem, we have new email server in 46.105.173.66. Can you help me?????

    host cluster8.eu.messagelabs.com [85.158.137.3]
        SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection:
        501 Connection rejected by policy [7.7] 3806, please visit www.messagelabs.com/support for more details about this error message.


  • 9.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Feb 02, 2016 05:23 PM

    Hi Jose, 

    Your sending IP has been removed from our internal blocklist which was targeting a certain range. You should no longer be seeing this error - 501 Connection rejected by policy [7.7]

    Regards, 

    Art



  • 10.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Feb 02, 2016 05:26 PM

    Hi John, 

    Out of the 3 provided IPs, I do see one them 69.50.193.207 being blocked. I've submitted a request to get it delisted with our Anti-Spam operations team. I will get back to you as soon as the block has been lifted. 

    Regards, 

    Art

     



  • 11.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Feb 02, 2016 06:29 PM

    Our IP is 67.21.161.141 but am not sure if we are still experiencing this problem.  Can you check for a block?



  • 12.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Feb 03, 2016 03:38 AM

    Hi Sym_Art

    All right, our emails are delivered correctly

    Thanks for all



  • 13.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Feb 03, 2016 05:33 AM

    Hi Rhetor22

    The IP 67.21.161.141 has no restrictions in place on it.

    Kind regards

    Dave Parker

    Principal Technical Support Engineer



  • 14.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Feb 03, 2016 08:56 AM

    Hello John, 

    There are currently no restrictions applied to your IPs. Let us know if you still experience problems. 

     



  • 15.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Feb 18, 2016 07:17 AM

    Hi

     

    Our IP 185.60.145.14 seems to be blocked by messagelabs.com and we don't know why. The message "please visit www.messagelabs.com/support for mor details..." does not help...

    We do not have any spam complaints about this IP. Maybe this IP was abused before, but we terminated the contracts with those clients.

     

    Can you help us or tell me, where I can get help?

     

    Thank you,

    Roger



  • 16.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Feb 18, 2016 08:14 AM

    Hi Roger,

     

    I have submitted your IP for investigation and lift any restrictions if possible. I will keep you informed of our investigation.

     

    Ben Beaulieu
    Senior Technical Support Engineer



  • 17.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Feb 19, 2016 08:34 AM

    Hi Roger,

     

    Restrictions on your IP have been lifted. You should no longer be getting blocked when connecting to Symantec.Cloud servers.

     

    Ben Beaulieu
    Senior Technical Support Engineer



  • 18.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Feb 19, 2016 02:33 PM

    Seems like mine's all fixed now. Emails send from both my email servers have had replies.

     

    thanks Dave Parker. Far better response that the one from the onlinecontact form!



  • 19.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Mar 01, 2016 05:37 AM

    Hi,

    We have several mail servers and have this error in some

    cluster8.eu.messagelabs.com host [85158140195]
      SMTP Error from remote mail server after initial connection:
      501 Connection rejected by policy [7.7] 19312, Please visit  
    www.messagelabs.com/support for
    More details about this error message.

    Please you can delete our address pool ip

    46.105.173.64 / 27



  • 20.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Mar 01, 2016 05:48 AM

    I will have that IP range checked.

    Kind regards
    Dave Parker



  • 21.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Mar 09, 2016 11:48 AM

    Hello

     

    we have the same problem

    (host cluster4.us.messagelabs.com[216.82.250.19] refused to talk to me: 501 Connection rejected by policy [7.7] 8707, please visit www.messagelabs.com/support for more details about this error message.)

    the ip is 189.197.63.45.

    Can you help us?

     



  • 22.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Mar 10, 2016 01:41 PM

    Let me look into this for you, Nora.

    Regards,

    Fernando Aspiazu
    Sr. Technical Support Engineer

     



  • 23.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Mar 10, 2016 04:03 PM

    Hello Nora,

    Restrictions for IP  189.197.63.45 have been removed. You should no longer be getting blocked when connecting to Symantec.Cloud servers.

    Regards,

    Fernando Aspiazu
    Sr. Technical Support Engineer



  • 24.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Mar 11, 2016 08:17 AM

    Dear Sirs and Madams,

     

    could you please remove our IP-Range from your  blacklist.

    5.135.104.128 - 5.135.104.191

     

    Kind Regards



  • 25.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Mar 24, 2016 03:51 PM

    Hello.

    We are refused by the message:

     

    relay=cluster8.us.messagelabs.com[216.82.249.147]:25, delay=35, delays=0.02/0.02/35/0, dsn=4.0.0, status=deferred (host cluster8.us.messagelabs.com[216.82.249.147] refused to talk to me: 501 Connection rejected by policy [7.7] 2910, please visit www.messagelabs.com/support for more details about this error message.)

    I run a postfix server whith all ok, spf reverse ip etc.

    My ips is not listed in any RBL and symantec.

    Please, remove:

    198.50.230.105

    198.50.230.106

    167.114.138.66



  • 26.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Mar 24, 2016 04:59 PM

    Hello Julio, 

    I've submitted request to have restrictions removed from your IP. This should be completed within 24 hours. 



  • 27.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Mar 29, 2016 07:17 PM

    Dear Sirs and Madams,

    unfortunately we got no response to our blacklist removal request. Therefore I kindly request again to remove our ips from your blacklist. We provide hosting services and it's very hard for us to tell our customers that there is an issue with symantec.

    Our company is not listed on any blacklist (e.g. spamhaus)

    5.135.104.128 - 5.135.104.191

    Thank you very much.



  • 28.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Mar 30, 2016 09:04 AM

    Let me look into this for you. I will get back to you once I have completed the investigation.

    Regards,

    Fernando Aspiazu
    Sr. Technical Support Engineer



  • 29.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Mar 30, 2016 02:14 PM

    Hello uid00,

    After further investigation, we reviewed this IP range and due to concerns in regards to snowshoe spam activity, we cannot remove the entire range for the time being as we also have an obligation to protect our customers from unsolicited bulk mail.

    What is snowshoe:
    http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/white_papers/custom-report-spam-outbreak-snowshoe-2014-10.pdf

    Should you have specific IPs you would like us to investigate, please let me know and we will review them.

    Fernando Aspiazu
    ​Sr. Technical Support Engineer



  • 30.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Apr 12, 2016 05:47 AM

    Hi!

    Could you please check why mails from srvm3033.vc-server-network.de are blocked?

    Returned mail:

    Action: failed
    Final-Recipient: rfc822;xxx@removed.yyy
    Status: 5.0.0
    Remote-MTA: dns; cluster8.eu.messagelabs.com
    Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 501 Connection rejected by policy [7.7] 19305, please visit www.messagelabs.com/support for more details about this error message.

    And the link does not open a helpful page :(

    Thanks!



  • 31.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Apr 12, 2016 11:15 AM

    Let me look into this for you. I will get back to you once I have completed the investigation.

    Regards,

    Fernando Aspiazu
    Sr. Technical Support Engineer



  • 32.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Apr 14, 2016 09:24 AM

    Hello,

    After further investigation, we reviewed this IP range and due to concerns in regards to spam run activity, we cannot remove this IP for the time being as we also have an obligation to protect our customers from unsolicited bulk mail.

    Please send your request to the following email address for further investigation (investigation@review.symantec.com)

    Regards,
    Fernando Aspiazu
    Sr. Technical Support Engineer

     



  • 33.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Apr 19, 2016 02:57 AM

    Dear Symantec Team,

    how long would I have to wait for an answer from the 'investigation' team? Apparently your filter lists are trusted blindly, so I would expect a timely response regarding problems due to this list.

    At least a response that someone received the mail and will have a look into it would be nice. If email takes as long as writing a paper based letter when dealing with an internet based company, some processes are not quite the way they should be.
    But that's just my 0.02$

    Regards



  • 34.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Apr 19, 2016 06:59 AM

    My firm provides email services to multiple companies, some of whom have recently started complaining that very important documents sent by email to large organisations are being bounced back after about five days with the message "501 Connection rejected by policy [7.7]".

    Our clients are having no joy trying to get our IP address de-listed by their recipients, and they quite rightly ask how it can possibly be due to each end-recipient organisation when multiple organisations have started rejecting mail at the same time.

    Our outgoing mail-server IP address is 94.23.190.46. That IP is as clean as any IP can be. It is not listed on any RBL, nor MS systems, and not even Symantec's own publicly accessible de-listing portal.

    This is costing our clients dearly in lost orders, and we are about to lose valued clients because of it. *PLEASE* can you de-list our IP address in your obviously centralised systems, and may I respectfully suggest that you configue your system's default setting to reject mail immediately, not after five days when any damage done by lost emails has already taken effect!



  • 35.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Apr 19, 2016 01:57 PM

    I think it's time people started suing Symantech for lost revenue, unnecessary stress, additional workload, etc.

     

    Class action anyone?



  • 36.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Apr 20, 2016 03:56 AM

    Same here, i can't send e-mail to my customer :( 

    Returned e-mail :

      cristina.garrote@geodis.com
        host cluster4.eu.messagelabs.com [85.158.137.68]
        SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection:
        501 Connection rejected by policy [7.7] 3105, please visit www.messagelabs.com/support for more details about this error message.

     IPs : 37.59.16.222, 87.98.233.61, 37.59.253.190

    Can u remove me from blacklist PLS?



  • 37.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Apr 20, 2016 04:23 AM

    Dear Symantec Team,

    I realise you're just doing your jobs, looking after the systems provided for you, but have you any idea how much time, money and stress is caused by Symantec not providing email service providers such as ourselves with a publicly accessible BL checker and de-listing portal? When end-clients get a bounce back five days after sending an important order or contract (because these are the sorts of companies that use Symantec Cloud Services), they come knocking on our doors, demanding compensation and threatening to take their custom elsewhere. We then have to spend hours working out what the problem is, and have to try and do something about it. And when the only IP blocks available these days all seem to have been previously used by spammers, simply buying a new block can get you no further than where you started.

    Please pass this back up the line, for Symantec's reputation is slowly going down the drain here: let us see if we are blacklisted by your Cloud Service, and allow us to de-list ourselves in the same way that most other RBLs across the planet do!

    ...and please de-list 94.23.190.46 as soon as possible, if not sooner. 

    A timely response to this post would be appreciated, along with an explanation as to why this issue has been allowed to remain so damaging to email service providers for so long.

     



  • 38.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Apr 20, 2016 08:38 AM

    Please can you check and unblock any of the following range

     

    94.229.72.34
     

    to

    94.229.72.62 inclusive

     

    AS per losstheplot the link provided in the error message doesnt actually provide any futher information nor does it give a link to manual delisting which i would have expected.

    I have several clients with unique IP addresses suffering from the rejection and yours is the only service blocking some of these IP address.



  • 39.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Apr 20, 2016 09:06 AM

    Hi All,

    We are looking at all the IP's mentioned above and will get back to you all ASAP.

    Kind regards
    Dave parker

    Principal Technical Support Engineer

     



  • 40.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Apr 20, 2016 10:30 AM

    Hi All,

    We have now removed the following IP's from our restrictions:

    94.23.190.46

    37.59.253.190

    94.229.72.34 to 94.229.72.62

    All other IP's mentioned are clear.

    Please allow up to 2 hours for this to take full effect.

    PLease accept our apologies for the delayin responding to your queries.

    Kind Regards

    Dave Parker

    Principal Technical Support Engineer



  • 41.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Apr 20, 2016 01:21 PM

    Thank you. Please consider creating a de-listing portal to save everyone a lot of trouble.



  • 42.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Apr 22, 2016 03:25 AM

    You still haven't unblocked our IP 37.59.16.222. and we still are not able to send e-mails.



  • 43.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Apr 28, 2016 08:54 AM

    Hello toniacz89, 

     

    There are currently no restrictions in place for your IP. 



  • 44.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted May 06, 2016 07:45 AM

    Hi, 

     

    We have issues from our company email server IP address : 5.135.5.104 , 5.135.5.105 , 5.135.5.106 . Could you please unlock them ?

    The error is as below:

    (host cluster8.eu.messagelabs.com[85.158.140.211] refused to talk to me: 501 Connection rejected by policy [7.7] 19410, please visit www.messagelabs.com/support for more details about this error message.)

     

    Please help



  • 45.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted May 06, 2016 12:05 PM

    I have a dedicated IP mail server that for some reason is also on the Symantec blacklist.  We're not on any other blacklists

    The error I receive is:  

      host cluster3.eu.messagelabs.com [194.106.220.51]
        SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection:
        501 Connection rejected by policy [7.7] 9203, please visit
    www.messagelabs.com/support for more details about this error message.

     

    My IP address is 31.187.71.9

    It is causing me severe problems emailing my clients.



  • 46.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted May 09, 2016 09:41 AM

    We have the same issue with your services;

    The error I receive is:

    host cluster8.us.messagelabs.com[216.82.251.39] refused to talk to me: 501 Connection rejected by policy [7.7] 16404, please visit www.messagelabs.com/support for more details about this error message.

     

    My IP is: 199.193.249.207



  • 47.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted May 09, 2016 09:58 AM

    Hello davet1408, 

    I've submitted a request to have restrictions lifted from your IP. This should be done in the next 24 hours. 



  • 48.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted May 09, 2016 11:42 AM

    Hello j_marmol, 

    I've just submitted a request to have restrictions lifted from your IP as well. 



  • 49.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted May 09, 2016 02:12 PM

    Hello thushar, 

    I've submitted a request to have restrictions lifted from 3 of your IPs. This should be done within 24 hours. 



  • 50.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted May 11, 2016 09:44 AM

    Hello,

    I also have this problem from my email server : 212.83.130.206

    Here is the error message :

    host cluster5.eu.messagelabs.com[85.158.136.83] refused to talk to me: 
    501 Connection rejected by policy [7.7] 3609, please visit www.messagelabs.com/support 
    for more details about this error message.

    My email server configuration seems to be correct and my server is not listed in any blacklist...

    Can you help me please ?



  • 51.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted May 16, 2016 07:25 AM

    Hello, 


    Got following error: Connection rejected by policy [7.7] 9611,

    Checked our server IP at http://ipremoval.sms.symantec.com/lookup/ and response is:

    " The IP address you submitted, 104.130.30.245, does not have a negative reputation and therefore cannot be submitted for investigation."


    rDNS is setup properly, same as SPF and DKIM


    Please check our IP 104.130.30.245.
     

    Thank you.



  • 52.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted May 18, 2016 05:55 AM

    Hi,

    Any help ?



  • 53.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted May 23, 2016 06:01 PM

    Dear Symantec team. I have the similar issue with IP 104.28.16.65 which is hosted by cloudflare.



  • 54.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted May 24, 2016 03:32 AM

    Dear Symantec team. We have exactly the same issue with our whole ip-range

    84.200.55.130 - 84.200.55.158

    We never sent spam or anything else, we have filled the removal form several times but nothing happened. please help us.



  • 55.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted May 24, 2016 04:17 PM

    Having this same issue... not listed anywhere: 198.100.154.101

    Thanks

    Steve



  • 56.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Jun 13, 2016 04:54 AM

    Having this same issue, my server IP is: 188.165.175.76

    Thanks

    Modesto



  • 57.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Jun 22, 2016 04:52 PM

    We started to have the same problem with our email not being delivered after we moved to Rackspace. Our IP is 2001:4802:7803:103:be76:4eff:fe20:62f0 and 104.130.31.98



  • 58.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Jul 15, 2016 04:23 PM

    hello we have the same issue with IP  after moving to softlayer   ip is 169.45.171.75  and also 169.45.171.77

     

    thank you

     

     



  • 59.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Jul 27, 2016 11:28 PM

    Hi,

     

    We have several mail servers and have this error in some

     

     host cluster5.us.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.131]
    SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection:
    501 Connection rejected by policy [7.7] 7608, please visit www.messagelabs.com/support for more details about this error message.

     

    Please you can delete our address pool ip

     

    192.252.214.195 and 192.252.214.196



  • 60.  RE: 501 Connection Rejected by Policy [7.7]

    Posted Aug 02, 2016 11:48 PM

    Dear Sir,

    Dear Sirs and Madams,

     

    We have checked our IP on http://ipremoval.sms.symantec.com/lookup/

    and got answer as following

    The IP address you submitted, 66.11.119.236, 66.11.119.243, does not have a negative reputation and therefore cannot be submitted for investigation.

    But we are still blocked and getting error "501 Connect Rejected by Policy [7.7]"

    could you please remove our IPs from your  blacklist.

    66.11.119.236    -

    66.11.119.243

    Kind Regards