[sclug] RBL recommendations

[Simon Heywood]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:48:52 -0000, Martin Summers wrote:
> I can confirm that we (as a company) have experienced problems when
> sending e-mails to destinations that are protected by spamhaus. It was
> something silly - the e-mail sender IP was not of the same domain name
> as the e-amil domain name, and this was due to a period of transition
> on our part. However, it was very difficult to get off of the
> blacklist once we were listed, even long after the problem was
> rectified.

That doesn't sound right. Spamhaus advertise lists of spam-sending hosts
(SBL), compromised hosts (XBL), and hosts that shouldn't be sending mail
(PBL). Are you sure you're not confusing this with SPF or some other
blocklist?

S.