I ran a whois on all my 10 TLD's and this is what I got: Blacklist Status: Listed - Cached Today Now I know it wasn't my fault. My ISP was placed on the Blacklist . Looks like there's no way around this problem. Damn, no business sites until I get a dediacted IP and not in the same ISP.
Thats very bad! Did only your dynamic IP got blacklisted or the mailserver of your ISP too? If it is only your dynamic IP, have you tried to configure postfix to route all outgoing mail trough the mailserver of your ISP?
Well, I don't know how the blacklist proccess is. But ALL my domains are listed as blacklist. So I think my ISP's whole IP thing has been blacklisted. I ran a relay test on this server and there was no problem and my server does not relay.
When I run the queries on whois.sc, this is exactly what is outputted: Date Data: 2005-08-21 Source: DNSBL.SORBS.NET Answer: 127.0.0.* DUL Information: http://www.dnsbl.us.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml It is against our policy to use any automation on our site, even though you have silver access. You may not run robots against our site. Any such use will be grounds for termination.
Tanks for pointing till. This is the only reason why my IP would be listed. Dynamic User/Host List Database (DUHL) Listing is performed manually after contact from netizens or ISPs indicating dynamically assigned space, or whenever SORBS admins notice the same, for example by receiving spam from such an address range. Note: This list should not list static address space, not even dialups. This is for any dynamically assigned space regardless of the method of connecting them to the Internet. And if this is the case, while the IP is listed in the blacklist db, mail might not arrive to it's destination because some email servers use sorbs.net blacklist db? I can't contact and complain to my ISP since I am on a residential account and not allowed to run any type of server . I guess i'll have to live with this until I upgrade. Which is another 4 months to the end of my contract.
From http://www.dnsbl.us.sorbs.net/faq/: Their mail sending form is here: http://www.dnsbl.us.sorbs.net/cgi-bin/mail
I'm afraid that will be a losing battle, but i'll try. My IP changes at least every 2 days. Another thing to consider is that other scums/clients with my ISP do spam, adding the block to be blacklisted again. Correct me if i'm wrong, but I think the only solution is to purchase a dedicated IP. So if it happens again, I can email them with the static IP.
Have you thought about my solution posted above? Normally every DSL Provider has Mailservers that can be used as mailrelay from the clients. Why not configure your postfix to send all outgoing email trough this mailserver from your DSL Provider?
Actually I didn't think about it but if it will resolve this embarrassment, I can try it. I'm in Webmin now under Postfix Configuration --> General Options. There is a setting: What domain to use in outbound mail. I would enter my ISP mail server there? And also there is another setting in the Other General Options. it is labled: Send outgoing mail via host I would again enter my ISP mail server there?
I think this setting will rewrite your outgoing email adresses, better leave it blank. Yes this looks like the right option, enter the relayserver of your provider here. Sorry, I'am not very familar with webmin
That's okay. Most real admins don't need webmin and I have heard horror stories about newbies using webmin and tashing there box . I still don't understand how this will remove the IP address from the blacklist database though. I mean, once I use my ISP's smtp for outbound, will the IP be removed from the blacklist database?
This will not remove your IP from the blacklist, but this is not nescessary any more because the IP of the mailserver of your provider is not blacklisted.
Ahh! I get it now. By using my ISP's smtp server, the mail server receiving my mail will not see it as blacklisted. Just a work around so ALL emails that originate from my domains are received. I just hope my friends dont tease me or stone me by running a whois on there domains and foinding out that the domains are blacklisted . I really hope only the IP address are blacklisted, and NOT the domain as well. As it is very hard to remove yourself from the database. Especially from sorbs.net
I have a bit of bad news I did another test and configured my email client (outook) to send thruogh my ISP smtp server and it works.
You could also directly edit /etc/postfix/main.cf. Insert these lines: Code: relayhost = smtp.yourisp.com smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd smtp_sasl_security_options = Then create /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd with a line like this in it: Code: smtp.yourisp.com smtp_user:smtp_password Afterwards do this: Code: chown root:root /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd chmod 600 /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd postmap /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd /etc/init.d/postfix restart
As for my ISP, they dont require a username and password. so creating a sasl_passwd isn't neccessary. However they dont allow relaying my from linux.domain.com server . Looks like i'll have to go back to direct send and hope people receive messages originating from my server. I haven't had any problems directly sending to gmail or yahoo, but I bet there are other servers out there that will label my emails as SPAM.
I have the same problem If I am sending mail to some. I get the mesage that I am on a blacklist. It's a whole range of ip adresses from my isp. Going to try to get un listed. But for that to happen going to use my isp smtp server. I have some questions thoug. 1 must I use smtp.myispdomain.nl or must I use the server, that I also have setup in outlook like netmail.myisp.nl? And if I send with my isp server witch mail address will the receiver see? The one I made in ISPConfig or the One I have with my ISP? TIA DaRKNeSS
