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Thomas Chapman Bhosted.net INC 1951 Commerce Dr Suite C Kingsland, Ga. 31548 (912)673-6745 ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Marc A. Funaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:21:48 -0500 >Hi Everyone, > >We're caught in the middle of a spam war. Though we've never been an open relay, and >our very small client base does NOT include any spammers, our IP address is now >included in blacklists that use sweeps of the entire class C range we're on, and we >(and our clients) can no longer send mail to several places because they are using >those blacklists. > >Relocating our servers to another network is not a possibility at this time. We're >working with them to get delisted; it's really in their court but it's going to take >some time. > >We'd rather not have to tell our clients to use their ISP's smtp services, because >that involves a lot of reconfiguring for quite a few of them, and we really want to >continue to provide turnkey services and not involve third parties when >troubleshooting mail problems. Until this problem arose, we were running great and >we enjoyed the ability to see "the complete mail picture" when someone had a problem. > >I am humbly asking for the help of the knowledgeable folks on this list, and >apologize in advance if the information requested below is published somewhere >already; I've definitely searched every way that I can think of, but have come up >empty. > >Basically, we need to know where we can find a low-cost (or free??) server (a >"smarthost"), outside a blacklisted range of IPs, that we can relay our outgoing mail >to, until this situation is resolved. If there is an individual or company on this >list willing to help us out one-on-one, that would be great. If there is a service >on the web that offers this type of temporary solution, please provide a link. Our >outgoing mail traffic is quite low (I don't have monthly or daily stats at the >moment, but will collect them if necessary), and we just need a box we can set our >single, primary iMail server to forward to, until our datacenter's IPs are off the >blacklists. > >Thanks for any assistance you can provide, > >Marc > >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at bhosted.net To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
