ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse
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@scottalanmiller said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
@JaredBusch said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
@Dashrender said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
@JaredBusch said in [ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse](/topic/8904/ml-s-email-blacklisting-bs-excuse
That is not how blacklists work. You are talking about spam not blacklists.
If not for spam or virus, then how does an email server get put on a blacklist?
It gets put on there for SPAM, but not because of user interaction. It is all automated with the use of honeypot addresses mostly.
Or sometimes direct reports. Lots of those services used to allow people to submit an IP address to say that they want them blacklisted.
The last time I looked, no service would simply block an IP based on user input. But they would add user input to their other checks. SpamCop, specifically has a mechanism allowing users to manually report mail.
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@scottalanmiller said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
@Dashrender said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
@scottalanmiller said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
@JaredBusch said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
@Dashrender said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
@JaredBusch said in [ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse](/topic/8904/ml-s-email-blacklisting-bs-excuse
That is not how blacklists work. You are talking about spam not blacklists.
If not for spam or virus, then how does an email server get put on a blacklist?
It gets put on there for SPAM, but not because of user interaction. It is all automated with the use of honeypot addresses mostly.
Or sometimes direct reports. Lots of those services used to allow people to submit an IP address to say that they want them blacklisted.
Exactly. If it was only honey pots that ML had to worry about, the wouldn't have to worry because they would never send to an address someone didn't sign up to use. ML could take it a step further to ensure someone is trying to fake send them to said honey pots, but requiring verification of ownership of email address before messages would be sent there.
I don't think my users would send messages to a honey pot either, yet I've be on blacklists twice in the past 10 years (the last time was like 6 + years ago). So short of someone direct reporting me.. I'm not sure how I would be added to a blacklist.
But the issue is that ML might be on an IP that has already been picked up by a honey pot before ML got to use it.
So go check. It's not that hard to check beforehand. And as JB said, I've never had it take more than 2 days before I was removed. And it rarely happens anymore.
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@Dashrender said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
@scottalanmiller said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
@Dashrender said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
@scottalanmiller said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
@JaredBusch said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
@Dashrender said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
@JaredBusch said in [ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse](/topic/8904/ml-s-email-blacklisting-bs-excuse
That is not how blacklists work. You are talking about spam not blacklists.
If not for spam or virus, then how does an email server get put on a blacklist?
It gets put on there for SPAM, but not because of user interaction. It is all automated with the use of honeypot addresses mostly.
Or sometimes direct reports. Lots of those services used to allow people to submit an IP address to say that they want them blacklisted.
Exactly. If it was only honey pots that ML had to worry about, the wouldn't have to worry because they would never send to an address someone didn't sign up to use. ML could take it a step further to ensure someone is trying to fake send them to said honey pots, but requiring verification of ownership of email address before messages would be sent there.
I don't think my users would send messages to a honey pot either, yet I've be on blacklists twice in the past 10 years (the last time was like 6 + years ago). So short of someone direct reporting me.. I'm not sure how I would be added to a blacklist.
But the issue is that ML might be on an IP that has already been picked up by a honey pot before ML got to use it.
So go check. It's not that hard to check beforehand. And as JB said, I've never had it take more than 2 days before I was removed. And it rarely happens anymore.
And I've had "unremoveable." But how do you check beforehand? How would that work since you would not have the IP beforehand?
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@scottalanmiller said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
@Dashrender said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
@scottalanmiller said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
@Dashrender said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
@scottalanmiller said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
@JaredBusch said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
@Dashrender said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
@JaredBusch said in [ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse](/topic/8904/ml-s-email-blacklisting-bs-excuse
That is not how blacklists work. You are talking about spam not blacklists.
If not for spam or virus, then how does an email server get put on a blacklist?
It gets put on there for SPAM, but not because of user interaction. It is all automated with the use of honeypot addresses mostly.
Or sometimes direct reports. Lots of those services used to allow people to submit an IP address to say that they want them blacklisted.
Exactly. If it was only honey pots that ML had to worry about, the wouldn't have to worry because they would never send to an address someone didn't sign up to use. ML could take it a step further to ensure someone is trying to fake send them to said honey pots, but requiring verification of ownership of email address before messages would be sent there.
I don't think my users would send messages to a honey pot either, yet I've be on blacklists twice in the past 10 years (the last time was like 6 + years ago). So short of someone direct reporting me.. I'm not sure how I would be added to a blacklist.
But the issue is that ML might be on an IP that has already been picked up by a honey pot before ML got to use it.
So go check. It's not that hard to check beforehand. And as JB said, I've never had it take more than 2 days before I was removed. And it rarely happens anymore.
And I've had "unremoveable." But how do you check beforehand? How would that work since you would not have the IP beforehand?
Create an instance, and get the IP. Check it. Determine if it is completely unusable or not, prior to even spinning up the OS.
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http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=blacklist%3A45.33.80.245&run=toolpage
The IP address you have in fine..... Why not just use the one you have?
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Also, going with a provider like Vultr, that blocks outbound port 25 by default means that you will have a very low probability of IP address issues.
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@JaredBusch said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
Also, going with a provider like Vultr, that blocks outbound port 25 by default means that you will have a very low probability of IP address issues.
That's true. But how would I get email out, then? I've not tested there, what do you do to enable it?
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@aaronstuder said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=blacklist%3A45.33.80.245&run=toolpage
The IP address you have in fine..... Why not just use the one you have?
It was tested and both O365 and GMail had it on blacklists.
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@aaronstuder said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=blacklist%3A45.33.80.245&run=toolpage
The IP address you have in fine..... Why not just use the one you have?
I checked since you posted this..... still blacklisted.
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@scottalanmiller said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
@JaredBusch said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
Also, going with a provider like Vultr, that blocks outbound port 25 by default means that you will have a very low probability of IP address issues.
That's true. But how would I get email out, then? I've not tested there, what do you do to enable it?
Email support. They responded in under a half an hour on a Sunday.
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Gotcha, so easy to do but enough that using it for a spammer would be problematic. That's good. I've not used email handling there so never noticed.
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@scottalanmiller said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
Gotcha, so easy to do but enough that using it for a spammer would be problematic. That's good. I've not used email handling there so never noticed.
I am using the service to test a FreePBX ISO install and wanted email to work.
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@scottalanmiller said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
@aaronstuder said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=blacklist%3A45.33.80.245&run=toolpage
The IP address you have in fine..... Why not just use the one you have?
I checked since you posted this..... still blacklisted.
What is Google and MS using for blacklists? their own private stuff? and where are you seeing it blacklisted but aaron doesn't?
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@Dashrender said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
What is Google and MS using for blacklists? their own private stuff? and where are you seeing it blacklisted but aaron doesn't?
They probably do, that would be my guess. But my guess as to why he does not see it is probably because he checked the load balancer and not the server.
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Oh wait, no load balancer. So... no idea. I was thinking that CloudFlare was there, just didn't think for a moment. But we are not behind them. He had the right IP, it just didn't list properly.
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He had the right IP, it just didn't list properly.
I proved that it's not blacklisted, can you prove it is?
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@aaronstuder said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
He had the right IP, it just didn't list properly.
I proved that it's not blacklisted, can you prove it is?
You did no such thing. Of course I can.
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Here is the response from Microsoft:
mail.protection.outlook.com[207.46.163.42] said: 550 5.7.606 Access denied, banned sending IP [45.33.80.245].
You might have proved that you can't look up blacklists. You can't even suggest that you proved that we aren't blacklisted. That's not even a proveable thing.
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Google responds with basically the same code.
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@scottalanmiller said in ML's Email Blacklisting BS Excuse:
Here is the response from Microsoft:
mail.protection.outlook.com[207.46.163.42] said: 550 5.7.606 Access denied, banned sending IP [45.33.80.245].
You might have proved that you can't look up blacklists. You can't even suggest that you proved that we aren't blacklisted. That's not even a proveable thing.
Ug - Microsoft's hate for Scott rears it's ugly head again.
