brispad said:
why when I attempt to send emails do I receive a message back from the system
administrator stating that my email address has been blacklisted by
cbl.abuseat.org How can I rectify this
They do NOT blacklist by e-mail address. They could care less what is
the e-mail address. They are only interested in identifying spam
sources by their IP address.
Have you scanned your host for mailer trojans to make sure that you
haven't been spamming? Have you been sending out bulk e-mails,
especially ones that use the same template for the body of the your
e-mail spew? Tons of e-mails hitting the same domain with [nearly]
identical content in the body often results in identifying that traffic
as spam. Even users can use their own DSS list to identify e-mails they
receive that are identical with e-mails received by other recipients
(and on different domains) and specify a threshold above which that
identical bulk mailing gets identified as spam. If you are sending bulk
mails (using a bulk mailer, listserver, or mail merge) then make sure
there is a significant difference in content between every copy of your
e-mail that is sent to all those recipients.
Did your IP address recently change? You never mentioned what TYPE of
network connection you have. Dial-up connects usually get a different
IP address on each connect (i.e., you get whatever is a free one in your
ISP's IP pool). Always-on connects (broadband cable/dsl) retain their
IP address even after the lease on that IP address expires (the IP
address becomes eligible for reassignment after the lease expiration but
doesn't occur until you unbind from that IP address, like when power
cycling your host or router). Could be you got assigned a new IP
address but which was previously abused.
Go through that blacklist site's request procedure to get removed or try
renewing your IP address to get a different one (but notify your ISP
that the IP address was blacklisted as they can check their logs to see
who had it before you to see who was spamming using their service). You
could try to contact the mail admin at the domain where you are
targeting your e-mail(s) to see if they will whitelist you but I doubt
it since you are not their customer.
