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0 pointskagronick3y ago0 comments

I think the problem was this guy was providing email accounts for other people. Other people who probably reused their passwords and had their email in the same DB in the apps they used. That DB was compromised. Hackers got an account to send spam. Then the domain was blacklisted.

He alluded to this in

> At some point your IP range is bound to be banned, either by one asshole IP neighbor sending spam, one of your users being pwned

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carlesfe3y ago

I understood that sentence as something that can happen to you even if you believe it won't.

> Please believe me. My current email server IP has been managed by me and used exclusively for personal email with zero spam, zero, for the last ten years.

gwd3y ago

> one of your users being pwned

Wow, good catch! He really buried the lede there -- "I kept getting blacklisted because my servers kept sending out spam." I don't know what to tell you pal -- spam is a serious problem, and if your users are sending it out, you're contributing to that. If you can't keep your users in line, other providers don't have any choice but to blacklist you.

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