On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 05:18 +0100, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: > Hi, > > I have been repeatedly affected by RBL providers incorrectly listing my > static IP address in their dial-up ranges causing my messages to be > rejected by the servers of several clueless wannabe administrators. > > What makes things really worse is that none of these lists is even close > to being well maintained and it usually takes weeks to get removed. What's your IP address and which DNSBLs (RBL is a trademark of MAPS LLC) are you referring to? > I first thought of a cronjob to nag the removal contact about once per > hour, but I doubt this account does ever get read. That's more likely to get you permanently plonked than removed. > Currently I am trying to use all contacts I can find for the RBL > provider and recipient domain and ask them to unlist my IP and/or stop > using the broken RBL. That makes more sense. > Unfortunately some of those bastards even use their own RBL to prevent > such requests from getting through and I wonder what else I can do. That's a pretty dumb thing for them to do, I'd have to agree. > Launch wget with an invalid URL once per second to put my removal > request in their httpd log? That's abusive; don't do it. > Reciprocally blocking their domain from delivering here? That's fine: your mail server, your rules. However, if they did eventually make a query regarding your removal request, you probably wouldn't want to reject it. > Any other ideas? A workaround might be to route outgoing mail for domains using that list via another mail server, such as your ISP's mail server. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
