[NBLUG/talk] domain name registrar which uses spam list on outgoing mail?

Zack Gold zack at nblug.org
Thu Nov 29 11:46:30 PST 2012


If you're using like an @comcast.net email address, that might be getting
rendered as spam. Perhaps your account was used previously by a malicious
attacker and bad emails have been sent in the past from your address, which
has resulted in it becoming blocked.


On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Kendall Shaw <kshaw at kendallshaw.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If this is too far off topic, I apologize. I have email forwarded to my
> ISP by my domain name registrar (I use fetchmail to put that in an imap
> server. so that's how this is related to linux...). Their host that relays
> email for my account gets on the CBL at spamhaus. So, people who send me
> email get an email back that seems to be saying that I am a spammer. This
> is a disaster.
>
> The registrar tech support people that I talked to said that they won't
> move my MX record to a different host and that there is nothing that they
> can do.
>
> If I understand correctly, the host that relays email to my ISP could use
> a spam detection service, for example spamhaus, on email that they relay,
> and take preventative measures.
>
> Do you know how I can find a domain name registrar that doesn't get it's
> servers on spam lists frequently? Aside from asking each one and hoping to
> be understood.
>
> Kendall
>
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