[GTALUG] Spamhaus block

[Marc Lijour]

fair enough -I can understand that perspective

What is my best bet? AWS? Azure?

On 2019-02-21 3:41 p.m., Don Tai via talk wrote:
> OVH is a well known den of spam, scraper and malicious bots. This is 
> your problem. I am sure Spamhaus has given up on the number of bots 
> they need to block and banned the whole IP range. I know I have. You 
> need to move to another host provider. OVH allows the rampant running 
> of bots, so this is what they get. Total ban.
>
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 at 14:17, Alex Volkov via talk <talk at gtalug.org 
> <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>> wrote:
>
>     Do you have reverse DNS records set up -- this is pretty much a
>     requirement for running any mail server these days.
>
>     This mailing list kept getting blocked by Spamhaus when we used IPv6
>     address to send out mail. I have no idea what was wrong with that,
>     but
>     the minute I turned off IPv6 everything went back to normal.
>
>     I remember there's an open-source mail config/blacklist checking
>     website
>     tool, but I don't remember its name.
>
>     Alex.
>
>     On 2019-02-21 1:24 p.m., Marc Lijour via talk wrote:
>     > Does anyone has insights about dealing with Spamhaus?
>     >
>     > I'm getting increasingly frustrated by being listed without
>     > explanation. I run a very low bandwidth mail server and a
>     website for
>     > my business. I am running postfix with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. I'd
>     like
>     > to know what I am missing.
>     >
>     > Spamhaus is very popular which in turn affects Twitter, LInkedIn,
>     > beyond just the mail.
>     >
>     > Is it possible to run one's own mail server this days?
>     >
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