[Dovecot] [info] Spamcop listing

[Sabahattin Gucukoglu]

Hi Timo,

On 27 Oct 2005 at 17:27, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> spoke, thus:

> On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 09:14 -0500, /dev/rob0 wrote:
> > Smtp1.song.fi and smtp2.song.fi, our list servers, seem to have gotten
> > listed in the bl.spamcop.net RBL. Spamcop listings are temporary and will
> > time out, and because of occasional major false positives (or perhaps
> > collateral damage?) like this I don't use it to reject mail. Anyone who
> > IS using Spamcop to reject mail has missed much of today's list traffic.
> 
> Oh. I changed to use smtp.song.fi because dovecot.org's IP was listed as
> "Dynamic/Generic IP/rDNS address" by Sorbs. Maybe I should change back then
> if Spamcop is used more?..

In my bitter experience, SORBS causes more damage than any of the other 
BLs put together and is used very heavily, SpamCop included among other, 
lesser lists.  SpamCop listings of listhosts are usually caused by silly 
users who were not doing their homework properly and used the reporting 
interface to do the wrong thing.  EuroCAUCE was even listed once!  Your 
resolutions are to either wait for SpamCop to give up on the host, to hope 
that the user repents and undoes the damage by request, that someone 
appeals on your behalf, or to look up the IPs at SpamCop, review the 
tatters of the message you are allowed to look at, and to try to find the 
subscriber who did this with tracefields.  It won't be easy, though (and 
judging from forum posts, you aren't likely to find the people helpful in 
defending a so-called sp at mmer).  Anyway, you mustn't surrender. :-)

Good luck!

Cheers,
Sabahattin

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