On 01/09/2012 10:13 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: >> On 01/09/12 12:31 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >>> Again, I*HATE* dnsorbs.... This was bounced, which makes twice today. >>> <snip> more text, add a few more words, we'll see if this makes it. >> >> your email is being relayed through 66.147.249.253 >> (oproxy4-pub.bluehost.com) which appears on several spam lists, for >> instance, sorbs says 100s of spams have been sent from that host in the >> past interval. >> >> you want to use a spammer-friendly service as your mail server, expect >> to be treated as a spammer and blocked by admins tired of the deluge.. > > Let's go through this again - we did it months ago. My site is hosted by > hostmonster, which also operates as bluehost. They are a *large* provider, > with hundreds of thousands of domains, and the email from all of them go > through their (few) email servers. Therefore, when 100 or so of them > running WinBlows get their hosts infected, and they send out spam, and the > hosting provider hasn't caught them yet, hundreds of thousands of the rest > of us get hit with the same block. > > Who here is *not* using a work email? Who here posts from their own > hosting site? Has this ever happened to you? > I own my own domain/server/subnet. My WISP customers can only send mail via my server, with all the prevention's I could think of. I have never been hit with this (but I do have small customer base), but I have had regular domains (like one local Bank!!!) blocked to deliver to my server because they do not have proper FQDN. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos