Heads up for spamhaus.org problems

Gareth list-mailscanner at linguaphone.com
Mon Aug 20 08:28:32 IST 2007


Yes you will get blocked for 2000 messages per day (we did). I am now
using their datafeed service.

On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 03:02, Richard Potter wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 12:34:23AM +0200, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
>  
> > >Just doing a routine check here, and I have a few mail servers 
> > >misbehaving. It
> > >*appears* sendmail dnsbl to zen.spamhaus.org is timing out, and causing 
> > >mail
> > >delivery delays, or none at all.
> > >
> > >I'm going to discontinue spamhaus, and see what happens.
> > 
> > Buy rsync from them. Most likely you fire a lot of lookups on their 
> > servers and they started to ban high volume mailservers some time ago.
> > We have seen this in a lot of places allready.
> > 
> > May i ask how much mail are you processing daily?
> 
> Thanks for the reply Raymond.. I wasn't aware they were doing that. These
> are low volume servers, less than 2,000 messages per day. Does that count
> as "high volume" to spamhaus?
> 
> Richard



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