Re: [cobalt-users] Open Relay problem

["Edward Bishop" <eddie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I got blacklisting messages from freeserve yesterday and it turned out to be
an error of some kind on their servers; it cleared after a few hours.

So don't do anything hasty because of this alone.

I emailed postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx but needless to say did not receive the
courtesy of a reply.


Eddie Bishop



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>From: "Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Open Relay problem
>Date: Fri, Oct 12, 2001, 4:33 pm
>

>> 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
> 
>
>
>
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