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Lking

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  1. As can be seen at https://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=blcheck&ip=40.107.220.133 This is up from 7 hrs shortly after your first post. This means the IP continues to send email to spam traps. No one here can help you fix that. If you do not have a dedicated IP for your outgoing email, that is between you and your ISP.
  2. Did you follow the link? and see the email was blocked because: Also notice that: If there are no reports of ongoing objectionable email from this system it (your IP) will be delisted automatically in approximately 7 hours. To your request, generally there are two possible causes for the IP address used by your email service being listed on SCBL: 1) Your email list includes addresses scraped from the internet that point to spam traps, or 2) your email service shares an IP address with another users who have sent emails to spam traps. Based on your post, your client uses an email service which uses SCBL to filter their incoming email. If your client wishes to receive your email in spite of being listed as a source of spam, they may be able to white list the IP address used by your email service. It is strongly suggested that you scrub your email list to assure only double-opt-in email addresses are included. After assuring you are not sending spam talk to your ISP to avoid sharing an out going IP with others who do send spam.
  3. As a flaky domain, there are several possibilities. At the time the parser looked the DNS tables were not configured correctly, or had not been fully distributed through the network. By the time you looked, and now, all DNS tables have been updated.
  4. There are several other block list. I do not have experience any of them.
  5. It is a Friday afternoon, my database crashed. It may be a good time to try to get a common understanding of "cause and effect" or who should be blame for what. It is true SpamCop is responsible for the SpamCop Block List, SCBL. Information about how the SCBL works may be helpful https://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/297.html Somethings to note within that link may help users have a better and safer experience. To state the obvious: SpamCop does not send spam, clogging the internet and people's inboxes with unwanted email. SpamCop does accept reports of spam received by others and use the results of spam traps to build a list of offending IP addresses. Unlike other block list, the SCBL automatically removes IPs shortly after spam stops. I would suggest that the problem of "Microsoft hosted emails being blocked" IS an issue for the ISP to resolve by not providing (free) service to senders of spam; NOT an issue for a service/organization reporting the spam trying to help the public in general filter their inbox. If a large ISP doesn't want to stop providing free service to clients they could consolidate offending spammers they support onto the same set of IP addresses. This would have a smaller effect on other clients. IIRC Microsoft has ask NOT to receive spam reports which would provide the information to separate spammers for other clients. TO be clear I am an unpaid volunteer on this forum, not a member of SpamCop, and these statements/opinions are mine and may not reflect official SpamCop policy. Years ago when I first started using the internet and email, I discovered the disadvantages of using email "included free" with dial-up internet service (yes I used a clay tablet). I changed ISPs to find service where I had more control over incoming email and a fixed dedicated outgoing IP address.
  6. @Luis thank you for the additional information. Your client trying to send you email is using an IP address that is also responsible for sending spam. Some of those spam have been reported to SpamCop. Although 40.107.94.90 currently is not on the SCBL, if more spam are sent it will be returned to the block list. To help all (other) SCBL users, SC does not white list any IP addresses. If you want to receive email from an IP address known to send spam you need to talk to your email host/ISP and request they white list the IP address. It may be helpful to explain the situation to you client. They have standing with their ISP (Microsoft) to request more vigorous anti spam actions to improve the email service Microsoft provides.
  7. @Luis from your post it is not clear to me if the IP address you gave is your outgoing email IP or the IP of the other party. As @gnarlymarley stated someone is reporting that IP as sending spam and as long as the spam/spam reports continue, the reported IP will remain on the SpamCop Block List (SCBL). When the spam stops the IP will automatically be removed from the SCBL. However, if spam resumes the IP will again be added to the SCBL. You can see the current status of the IP at https://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=checkblock&ip=40.107.94.90 You can see additional information at the link https://www.spamcop.net/spamstats.shtml
  8. @Foggy you are dead right. 1) No matter what the client does, if they are not willing to pay for a dedicated IP address for out going emails, they will never be in full control of their email and run the risk of someone else fouling the reputation of the IP address and there by their reputation. 2) Not using double opt-in email list, (and maybe buying email list) always runs the risk of getting complaints from people who don't want their in-box cluttered, or worst-case a spam-trap. I know preaching to the choir.
  9. I'm guessing @Foggy does not know what IP address his mail server is using, so the link @petzl and I provided doesn't help much. @Foggy contact you ISP (who I guess host your domain and email service) to check if you have a dedicated email IP or a shared IP. The IP address used to send your emails is what needs to be entered into the form on the link @petzl provided. THAT will tell you why you are/have been listed on the SCBL. With that information you can take positive corrective action.
  10. Interesting tool. Have you followed the SPAMCOP link in the report and read the help about when and why your IP is listed on the SCBL? IF no more emails from your IP are reported AND no more email to spam traps are received, your IP will automatically be removed from the SCBL. But that is only 1 of the 3.5 points this tool is deducting from your score.
  11. You have posted what you have found to be the correct abuse address here. which is the correct action to take to update SC.
  12. Remember, if the "Product" is free, You are the product.
  13. If you feel you have a better abuse/reporting address for an IP the sub forum for this forum, Routing/Reporting Address Issues is the place to support the SCBL and help update the data base. There are several examples to follow. Other users may like a valid reporting URL so they can see, first hand, what the parser did and the results. In general there is a possibility that a second set of eyes may see something in the header missed by others.
  14. As a reminder the function of any block list, SCBL included, is to assist users of a block list segregating unwanted commercial email from their other incoming email. No block list provider, including SC, has the authority to stop a spammer or block spam at its source. In addition to the block list, SC uses the header of the reported email, and spam traps to identify the ISP used by the spammer and notifies the ISP that their assets are being used to spread spam. It is up to the ISP to take whatever action they deem appropriate. Unfortunately, some ISPs are more concerned about their paying customers senders of email (including spam), than they are concerned about the overall state of the internet. One common result of this $$$ mindset is to shift their clients away from IP that are blocked so the customer's emails will get through. In this day and time it is hard to realize that the internet email system was designed in a time when "all" internet users were "good members of the community" and expected to act accordingly. I'm guessing that lasted about 26 minutes. Block lists are one answer to that design shortcoming. IMHO to redesign the email system now would be similar to changing the U.S. electrical grid. Somethings may continue to work. Most would not. The result for those trying to receive email is to work with their incoming ISP and/or use some app to help filter their incoming email. Currently there are 80+ email I have filtered into a trash folder waiting for me to report them. The result for those trying to send email is to use an ISP that will provide them a fixed IP that no other user can used to send spam, OR use an ISP that does not allow their paying customer to send spam. Either approach should result in an outgoing IP that will not be on a block list. (assuming your email lists are double-op-in lists.)
  15. I am no expert at parsing email headers. at the top of the reported spam I see When I plug the ip 40.107.244.53 into the "Blocking List" tab at the top of Reporting URL page I see sewr [AT] senpluspluseop [DOT] onmicrosoft [DOT] com
  16. Yes and no. Back in the day this sub-forum "Food & Cooking Techniques" was created under "Geek/Tech Things." This thread is no less relevant to fighting spam (with the exception of Hormel's S P A M) than anything else in this sub-forum. Should the forum be deleted? I think not. Yes, years old threads. Yes, links to less relevant websites. But deleting old threads may result in even more broken internal links in these forum.
  17. in spamcop.net scroll down to SCBL Rules for details.
  18. The spammer Avalstarten was blocked when I deleted their post. Their post count is "one" but there are no post listed (the only clue most people can see). Only admin/moderators can see warning points and banishment.
  19. I assume you are talking about topic "Interpreting SpamCop reports and blocking big spammers" One of the three forum spam I deleted on 30 Oct was added to that topic. When the spammer posted you and the other person following that thread were sent an email; I deleted the spam post before you check the topic. This is one of the side effects of having a wide open forum which doesn't run the risk of "AI" blocking some random new user with a valid question?
  20. Looks like option one is the answer. Yes I agree, cut'n past lots of spam is a pain. A talk with your ISP is in order. It has been a while sense I had to deal with comcast so good luck. have you seen any pattern in when/how the 80/20% pass through / block occurs?
  21. Are your reports getting to SC? After sending a spam, even if you do not receive a response the spam should be in your SC queue to be approved. If it is not there then your email provider is blocking your outgoing email because of the spam content, or they have outgoing settings that fail to connect to the SC server. If they are not sending or are trying and failing to sent, your outgoing email they should send you some kind of a notice. On the other hand, if your submitted spam shows up in you SC queue, then your email host could be blocking email from SC. In the passed it has been common for ISPs to block email with the word spam in them. Sense some are coming through, it may be informative to run a test: Forward some spam, one at a time, spaced out to see if there is a threshold when they start blocking outgoing or incoming email. Let the forum know what you find.
  22. SpamCop anticipated your concern. You see a slightly different screen then the rest of us see. If you logout and browse the forum as a "guest" and go to you post clicking on the Tracking URL I think you will see the redacted email.
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