Spamcop.net RBL blocking emails by mistake?

[Rob Morin]

Well the default in my config was already set at 10 i lowered it to 8... 
i will now lower it to 4...

Thanks for all your replies.... But is there any RBL worth paying for or 
worth using then?

Thanks..

Rob Morin
Dido Internet.Inc.
Montreal, Canada


René Berber wrote:
> Rob Morin wrote:
>
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>> Is it possible to get a false positive back from spamcop.net's RBL ?
>>     
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> Yes.  Anybody can make spamcop add a server address, and they do, many famous
> non spammers have been there, Amazon, mail lists...
>
>   
>> I have been getting some complaints about spam being deleted, because it
>> is seen as being on spamcop.nets list, so it gets a score of 10 and gets
>> deleted....
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> Why are you using such a high score? MS uses 4.0 for spamcop.
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>   
>> here is an entry in my log file...
>>
>> Sep  7 03:36:57 peter MailScanner[15870]: RBL checks: 2380E69001E.DFE12
>> found in spamcop.net
>> Sep  7 03:36:58 peter MailScanner[15870]: Message 2380E69001E.DFE12 from
>> 66.249.82.232 (team4ss at gmail.com) to zonecom.ca is spam, spamcop.net,
>> SpamAssassin (score=8.638, required 4, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00,
>> RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 8.00, SARE_MSGID_LONG40 0.64)
>> Sep  7 03:37:00 peter MailScanner[15870]: Spam Actions: message
>> 2380E69001E.DFE12 actions are delete
>>
>> I checked the IP and it was not listed. Is it possible to be listed at
>> 7AM and then removed at 10AM? Plus its a gmail.com account/IP
>>     
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> No idea here, they (spamcop) probably found the bogus entry and changed it fast.
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