>It seems like most major providers were blacklisted by Osirusoft today, in 
>particular, Earthlink.  We have temporarily deactivated our blacklists as 
>a result.  Below I have simulated the reverse lookup done by our 
>mailserver.  It shows that the relays.osirusoft.com don't like any of 
>Earthlink's mail relay (in my example I use "falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net")
>
>[root@home cappelli]# nslookup 74.120.217.207.relays.osirusoft.com
>Server:  home.LABridge.com
>Address:  206.117.169.5
>
>Name:    74.120.217.207.relays.osirusoft.com
>Address:  127.0.0.7
>
>The 127.0.0.7 is osirusoft's way of saying "blacklisted".  This result 
>code was the same for all of Earthlink's servers which I have confirmed 
>are not open relays.  Additionally, the web server at 
>http://relays.osirusoft.com/ seems to be unavailable (although it pings, 
>traceroutes and answers nslookups.)

See http://www.declude.com/junkmail/support/ip4r.htm .  Osirusoft is not 
claiming in any way that those mailservers are open relays.  It is not a 
good idea to use spam tests that you don't understand (for example, if you 
used the old whitelist test at ORBS, most of your legitimate mail would get 
caught).

Specifically, the test that you are running that mail from those servers is 
getting caught by is a list of mail servers that run mailing lists that do 
not use confirmed opt-in.  That's a very different type of spam than the 
type of spam sent by open relays.

                                                    -Scott
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Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for 
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