This is really strange. Here’s what’s basically happening:
Whenever I send an email to anybody from my domain (@ablogic.net, or
207-234-130-118.ptr.primarydns.com), most of them bounce back (from servers
that have spam filters), saying that this message is spam (some servers say
that my IP is spam). The only thing I can guess is that somehow I got added
to a blacklist or something, which’s used by most spam blockers out there.
I don’t know much about anti-spamming technology, but that’s the only thing
I can guess.
I’ve NEVER sent spam to anyone, my mail server is NOT an open relay, doesn’t
have any open proxies (I consider myself a decent linux admin and know all
my open ports), so the only thing I can think of is that someone added me to
those blacklists by hand…
Now come to think about it, last week I reported a spam to some company
named covad.net (or something like that) – their user was sending me spam
from their servers, without even spoofing the username. Maybe they told the
spammer that I reported them, and the spammer added me to the blacklist as a
retaliation?
Can someone suggest anything? By the way, here’s an example of a bounce
with file “undelivered message headers.txt”:
Received: from 207-234-130-118.ptr.primarydns.com
(207-234-130-118.ptr.primarydns.com [207.234.130.118])
by barracuda.mhb.com (Spam Firewall) with SMTP id 74FD41F78
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 17 May 2006 19:17:22 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from c-67-160-71-246.hsd1.wa.comcast.net ([67.160.71.246])
by 207-234-130-118.ptr.primarydns.com (JAMES SMTP Server 2.2.0)
with SMTP ID 492
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Wed, 17 May 2006 19:21:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Ivan Jouikov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: We recieved a biometrics appoint
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 19:15:57 -0700
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0130_01C679E6.5416FEF0"
X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869
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Thank you for your business,
Ivan Jouikov
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