cut off by spamhaus free use?

[Jeff Mills]

> > 
> > Yes it happened to one of my installs. Unfortunately, somebody had 
> > used their domain name in a spam attack, so the server got 
> thousands 
> > of extra inbound emails. It was enough for spamhaus to 
> block the servers.
> > 
> And it appears that it is an automated process to be blocked, 
> but only a manual unblock.


Yes!
One of the things I have done in my servers is move the spamhaus list to
the bottom of my list of RBL's.
That way, spamhaus is only queried when none of the others match. I find
that spamcop gets more than the others.





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