Mail5 Cl1 on SORBS Black List

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tradenet

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Mail5 is listed on black list
Clients are sending emails that are rejected or deleted by other servers due to this.

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Remote host said: 574 MAIL REFUSED - IP (173.0.142.205) is in RBL black list recent.spam.dnsbl.sorbs.net
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We will check on it, SORBS is always slow to respond, but we will see if there was any abuse there or not and stop it if so.
 
I agree some of these lists are useless..but SORBS is blocking emails of several clients...problem is that my clients do not always receive a bounce back error message..can you please make contact with SORBS as I am sure you have more clients effected but do not realize it yet.
 
Stephen said:
some of those list for anything, like if a mail sends a bounce that an address doesn't exist, pretty worthless as lists and not to be worried about.
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I'm not sure that I entirely agree with you on this. I would prefer that Jodo mail servers refuse to accept mail for invalid addresses rather than accept and then bounce them. Especially as most mail sent to invalid addresses is from Spammers.

Having twice been on the receiving end of having thousands of mis-directed bounces arriving in my mailbox over a few days from someone's Spamming campaign, I can understand why SORBS and similar block lists include servers that bounce invalid addresses instead of refusing them in the first place.

On both occasions, there were only a handful of servers that sent more than one or two bounces, so any one server was not a problem. It was the cumulative effect of thousands of servers each sending one or two bounces each that was the problem.

It would be nice to know that mail sent to invalid addresses for the domains I manage weren't going to help clog up someone else's mailbox.
 
tradenet said:
I agree some of these lists are useless..but SORBS is blocking emails of several clients...problem is that my clients do not always receive a bounce back error message..can you please make contact with SORBS as I am sure you have more clients effected but do not realize it yet.
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SORBS isn't blocking anything. It's those using the SORBS list who are using it incorrectly. The list should be used as part of a scoring system for evaluating Spam. To use a block list as a "Yes/No" switch is a really foolhardy thing to do in my opinion.
 
Dear Stephen
I would really like to know if a request o remove was sent to SORBS to remove it from black list.
Thank You
 
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