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Sluggy.net IP on Spamhaus PBL (blocking forum e-mail delivery in some cases)

#124

Possibly related to ticket 95, I haven't been able to get an account reactivation e-mail out of the Sluggy.net forums for at least a couple weeks now (having tried two or three times, with several day waits between tries). Maybe longer -- I honestly don't remember why I need to reactivate my account, but I think whatever it was I did was a few months ago, at least.

Anyway, account name, if needed for some purpose, is broken_chaos.

Reported by Deleted User · February 23rd, 2010 @ 02:05 AM

State: new
Milestone: none
Assigned to: Brendan W. McAdams Brendan W. McAdams

Activity

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    Deleted User
    • Title changed from Sluggy.net forums don't sent activation e-mail to Sluggy.net IP on Spamhaus PBL (blocking forum e-mail delivery in some cases)
    • Assigned user set to Brendan W. McAdams
    • Milestone order changed from 0 to 0

    I found out why this is -- the sluggy.net server is listed under Spamhaus's Policy Block List (PBL), which is also included in their rather-popular 'zen' (combined) block list. Since switching my personal e-mail over to a VPS, I grabbed a segment of the log from when I tried to resend the activation e-mail:

    Aug  8 06:50:52 server postfix/smtpd[3050]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from wouldyoukindly.sluggy.com[174.143.168.248]: 554 5.7.1 Service unavailable; Client host [174.143.168.248] blocked using zen.spamhaus.org; http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=174.143.168.248; from=<SPAM-PROTECTION-REDACTED> to=<SPAM-PROTECTION-REDACTED> proto=ESMTP helo=<wouldyoukindly.sluggy.com>

    As a result of this, I've dropped the PBL list from my server -- unless spam becomes a major issue for me, it's obviously too restrictive. So, I do now have that reactivation e-mail, at least. ;-)

    Checking Spamhaus reveals PBL340794 is the reason, and it appears it should be easy to get the specific IP address automatically de-listed. This may also account for some references to sluggy.net forum e-mail being dropped into various spam folders (specifically if thoes spam filters that use/reference Spamhaus as a scoring method).

    A Google search for "slicehost pbl" shows a bunch of curious results. Perhaps I'll end up dropping Spamhaus entirely, if their policies in cases like this are inappropriate.

    Hope this helps with some of the other reported e-mail issues, too.

    August 8th, 2010 @ 03:28 AM

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