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Seeing your post, I just checked myself on https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx It's all clean, except on http://www.spa
by loup-vaillant 9y ago
Seeing your post, I just checked myself on https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx
It's all clean, except on http://www.spamrats.com http://www.spamrats.com (specifically the RATS-Dyna list, and I am not using a home connection.)
I know my mail server is not ideally configured, so I checked the details there. Turns out not only my IP is listed as spam, the whole C network is. "Worst Offender Alert", they call it. Apparently they want nothing to do with me because my neighbours look crap. As a result, I can't even request being removed. Now what, I quit my provider because he gave me the wrong IP?
Seriously, this is getting closer and closer to not even being allowed to send email yourself.
Meanwhile, I receive plenty of spam from gmail and yahoo accounts. I doubt this affects the rating of Google's and Microsoft's servers. I guess their size an money makes them legitimate, somehow?
- ticoombs 9y agoYou could setup a SMTP server and route your emails via Amazon/Asure/GCP. For less than 2-4$/m
- Faaak 9y agoThat's not the goal of a local SMTP server though
- loup-vaillant 9y agoAnd let them spy on my email? Why do you think I administrate my own server in the first place? (I reckon being a paying customer may mean they do not collect data. I don't trust them not to, though.)
- devicenull 9y ago> It's all clean, except on http://www.spamrats.com http://www.spamrats.com (specifically the RATS-Dyna list, and I am not using a home connection.) That particular list is very well known for doing this. Essentially no one uses them, but they get a bunch of free traffic by being listed on mxtoolbox. Their removal requirements are fairly absurd anyway (must provide them with a full customer list of everyone using your IPs)