RE: [cobalt-users] Open Relay problem

["Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>]

> My mail server appears to have been blacklisted for some reason
> unbeknown to
> me.
>
> I run a mail list on one of the domains (majordomo) AOL apparently seem to
> think it has been used to spam people through open relay or some
> such thing.
> Another ISP - freeserve has just blocked me without warning too.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to close the open part of this relay please. cobalt
> raq 4.
>

Check your IP address at
http://relays.osirusoft.com/cgi-bin/rbcheck.cgi?addr= and affix your IP
after the = sign and check your server IP address at http://www.spews.org/
If it's listed at spews, it might not be your server, but another IP in your
block. That would indicate that your upstream has ignored spam complaints
and is now listed in spews and the IP block is in the deny lists of
thousands of servers.
If it's in spews, either get your upstream to cooperate and remove spammers,
or vote with your feet and move to a new host in another IP block. It's been
compared to moving into an apartment in a dangerous part of town. Nobody is
going to deliver pizza to you there.
--
Dan Kriwitsky