Email down-ODD ERROR and "Media Disconnected" ?

[Viper69]

In advance, thanks if you reply, and this is really odd!

I haven't had anything wrong with my Win11 rig, and never seen this error below, I'm in uncharted waters.

My email, using Thunderbird, has been running fine. I noticed I wasn't receiving email alerts from another board nor the usual SPAM and knew something was up. I opened Tbird yesterday and this morning, and saw the below error

"sending of password for user [email protected] did not succeed. Mail server responded [email protected] responded: [AUTH] Temporarily blacklisted IP Address- try again later"

I should NOTE here, my ISP is not comcast. It's another company. Comcast lets previous account owners continue to use their email. Never had an issue.

I've never seen this ever! I did some searching on the net, and one person suggested I check with comcast to see if there are emails on my account via their website. I checked, and there were tons of emails from the other forum, and the usual spam HAH.

Then I found this suggestion from Toad-Hall user. Seemed the most logical from the sites I read, maybe not?

E-MAIL FROM COMCAST .... TEMPORARILY BLACKLISTED IP ADDRESS,,,,,TRY AGAIN | Thunderbird Support Forum | Mozilla Support

support.mozilla.org

1. I checked SPAMHAUS.org w/my IP address- no issues there at least.



However I followed along with the second link from ToadHall's post.

Release and renew your Internet Protocol (IP) address

Get complete instructions on how to release and renew your IP address when needed.

www.xfinity.com

I could not release the IP address with ipconfig/release, DOS prompt reported the below. And now I'm stuck

I get a return of the following

Windows IP Configuration

No operation can be performed on Wi-Fi while it has its media disconnected.
No operation can be performed on Local Area Connection* 1 while it has its media disconnected.

Unknown adapter Local Area Connection:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Ethernet adapter Ethernet:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : home
IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : fd0e:c875:94ce:1:3e47:9201:388:f911
Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : fd0e:c875:94ce:1:8d7:db1d:ca8:5bdb
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::61d8:cb59:d8f7:9d08%17
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Wireless LAN adapter Local Area Connection* 1:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Wireless LAN adapter Local Area Connection* 2:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

C:\Users\mazzp>ipconfig/renew

Windows IP Configuration

No operation can be performed on Local Area Connection while it has its media disconnected.
No operation can be performed on Wi-Fi while it has its media disconnected.
No operation can be performed on Local Area Connection* 1 while it has its media disconnected.
No operation can be performed on Local Area Connection* 2 while it has its media disconnected.

Unknown adapter Local Area Connection:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Ethernet adapter Ethernet:

I removed from the copy/paste my IP address and such, but the IP address listed is the same one I used to check with spamhaus.



Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Wireless LAN adapter Local Area Connection* 1:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Wireless LAN adapter Local Area Connection* 2:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

 

[don256us]

I suspect that the IP address that is black listed is your modems address not your computer. Before heading out to run errands, unplug your modem's power and run your errands/do chores. Then see if it gets a new IP and starts working. Of course, you could just call comcast and get them to do something along those lines too.

I also see that you only have IP6. I have decided to stay with IP4 on my internal network. Not sure that there is anything there but throwing it out to see if it sticks.

Using Thunderbird on Comcast network, I think that you have to ensure that your outgoing address is Comcast's. I suspect you already have that so I list it last.

 

[Viper69]

I suspect that the IP address that is black listed is your modems address not your computer. Before heading out to run errands, unplug your modem's power and run your errands/do chores. Then see if it gets a new IP and starts working. Of course, you could just call comcast and get them to do something along those lines too.

I also see that you only have IP6. I have decided to stay with IP4 on my internal network. Not sure that there is anything there but throwing it out to see if is sticks.

Using Thunderbird on Comcast network, I think that you have to ensure that your outgoing address is Comcast's. I suspect you already have that so I list it last.

As mysteriously as the error happened, it is now gone. Fortunately I didn't try too much. I did remove the router/cable modem and that didn't change anything. I learned from ISP that while the cable modem/router has a dynamic IP, they claim it is not something I can force a change on.

I hope this is the end of the error for a LONG time. Thanks for replying.