Email Blacklist Monitoring

Detailed information and dialogue on email blacklists.

Entries for November, 2008

SPEWS Blacklist Obsolete

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 [...]

Intersil Blacklist Gone

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.

Barracuda Reputation Block List (BRBL) Follow-up

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.
For [...]