We’ve been informed that the JAMM DNSBL is out of service. If your IP is showing as blacklisted on this service, it’s likely due to the common practice of blacklisting all inquiring IPs when a service is discontinued. This practice is done to get the attention of administrators who are still using the blacklist, so [...]
Just an update to a previous forum post:
RedHawk has indicated that they are going to release access to their access.redhawk.org blacklist with their “soon to be released” SpamHawk product. They indicate that they are again collecting information from their SPAM database, as of November 2008.
For more information, please see their SpamHawk page at:
Visit redhawk.org
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The Spam Prevention Early Warning System (SPEWS) database has not, to our knowledge, been updated since August of 2006. Although our Email Blacklist Lookup Tool currently still checks the database, we plan to remove this check by the end of 2008 since it is clearly obsolete. The SPEWS database was created to list the IP [...]
We received word today that the Intersil blacklist is no longer in use, and have removed it from our lookup tool and email blacklist contact sheet.
If your email server is still using blackholes.intersil.net, you should remove it from your configuration.
Just wanted to let everyone know that our lookup tool now includes the BRBL from Barracuda. For email administrators who wish to use the BRBL directly (e.g. from within Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino, sendmail, Postfix, and qmail, etc.) please note that you need to register your email server IP addresses directly with Barracuda Networks.
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On October 2, 2008, Barracuda Networks announced the availability of their Barracuda Reputation Block List (BRBL) for free, general use by email admins. Their reasoning for introducing a new blacklist appears to revolve around their core spam filtering products, which allows them to automatically create and update the blacklist. This email blacklist is another database-oriented approach, [...]
