Imnsho, Spamcop is right.  But I still don't use them.

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Wright [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 3:36 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: RBL issues

Whether right or wrong, this is still a good reason to not rely on the results 
provided by SpamCop.


Roger Wright
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On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Bill Songstad <[email protected]> wrote:
> at one point yesterday it looked like about 80 gmail servers 
> blacklisted by spamcop.
>
> Nothing I write after here is verified.  I gleened it off of 
> discussion lists and could be only partially based in reality:
>
> Apparently there is a pissing match about whether or not google should 
> include the original sender's ip in the header.  Google apparently 
> won't (hot mail and yahoo apparently do) so spamcop says they have no 
> choice but to list the server ips.  Otherwise they'd list the sender's.
>
> -Bill
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Kennedy, Jim 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Bingo. And in the original post he mentioned with spamcop turned on 
>> by itself it still did this. I just did some googling and it looks 
>> like over the last few weeks Spamcop has been listing some Google servers.
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Bill Songstad [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 3:22 PM
>>
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: Re: RBL issues
>>
>>
>>
>> If only gmail is being blocked, I blame spamcop.  If others are being 
>> blocked as well, I'm stumped.  I'd start with looking at DNS.  It 
>> could be that your local DNS is giving responses that vipre is 
>> interpreting as "listed".
>>
>>
>>
>> -Bill
>>
>>
>>
>> PS I got the red banner on my post too.  Not sure why gmail is 
>> thinking I'm spoofing myself.  I feel like me.
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:13 PM, S Powell <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> the incoming mail that I was testing was coming _from_ gmail.
>> Vipre seems to have been blocking it inbound.
>>
>> outbound email sent _from_ %internalDomain% was sending just fine.
>>
>> @THIS STATMENT IS VERIFIABLY INCORRECT
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:00, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > This is likely NOT a VIPRE issue.
>> >
>> > What it means is that your org has been blacklisted by someone.
>> >
>> > Time to do some detective work.
>> >
>> > Kurt
>> >
>> > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:42, S Powell <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> LOL.... REALLY????....
>> >>
>> >> yes, logged into gmail via web.... https  cert says 
>> >> mail.google.com issued by thawte...
>> >>
>> >> i've tried flushdns and restart the vipre PIM , restarting 
>> >> exchange transport.
>> >>
>> >> but RBL still blocks everything....
>> >>
>> >> wonder if Google is mucking about....
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> @THIS STATMENT IS VERIFIABLY INCORRECT
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:39, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>> Gmail presents your email to me with a bright red banner, with 
>> >>> the following text in it:
>> >>>
>> >>> Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. 
>> >>> Beware of following any links in it or of providing the sender 
>> >>> with any personal information.
>> >>>
>> >>> Something is definitely wrong.
>> >>>
>> >>> Kurt
>> >>>
>> >>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 09:55, Bill Songstad 
>> >>> <[email protected]>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>> I've had problems with spamhaus hating my DNS proxy on my 
>> >>>> watchguard firewall.  Had to turn off the proxy.  Another issue 
>> >>>> I had recently with spamhaus is that public DNS servers like 
>> >>>> 8.8.8.8  and 4.4.2.2 don't work.
>> >>>> But that should actually allow all traffic, so forget that I guess.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> By everything do you mean EVERYTHING?  I was seeing the same 
>> >>>> NDRs for many Gmail clients earlier this week because about 80 
>> >>>> gmail servers are blacklisted by spamcop.  But non gmail traffic 
>> >>>> gets in fine.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> -Bill
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Kennedy, Jim 
>> >>>> <[email protected]>
>> >>>> wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Trying to resolve the spamhaus.org zones  to an A record will 
>> >>>>> not work, it is a defensive measure against DoS attacks. So 
>> >>>>> that test is a red herring and you can ignore that. Beyond that 
>> >>>>> I have nothing to add, we don't use Vipre.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> -----Original Message-----
>> >>>>> From: S Powell [mailto:[email protected]]
>> >>>>> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 11:37 AM
>> >>>>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> >>>>> Subject: RBL issues
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> After restarting exchange yesterday, and installing updates;  
>> >>>>> Vipre has been blocking everything. This it the message-->
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> "The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 5.7.1 
>> >>>>> Message rejected because of RBL policy (state 13)."
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> okay. we had the RBL in place before, and I didn't change 
>> >>>>> anything on the server other than installing updates and 
>> >>>>> restarting.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> nslookup from the exchange server works for most domains 
>> >>>>> HOWEVER spamhaus.org does not resolve, but spamcop does.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> removing spamhaus from the RBL list and only using spamcop 
>> >>>>> gives me the same result. everything is blocked.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> With the RBL turned off, everything works.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> thoughts on why this is? DNS seems to be working for everything 
>> >>>>> else...
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> @THIS STATMENT IS VERIFIABLY INCORRECT
>> >>>>>
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