Email Marketing Course Tactics: Tips on How to Pull Out From an Email Blacklist

These simple steps will help you get off from an Email Blacklist. Just make sure to follow the simple guidelines.

1. You should take note on what blacklist(s) you belong.
2. Visit the website that relates to that blacklist –
3. Consider reading the FAQ page and other relevant information displayed on that website.
4. Keep an eye and do what the guidelines specified

 

There are online tools available that you can to see if you are listed. See below:

 

Spam Blacklist Checker Tool

Aside from checking the blacklists and giving it a detailed observation, monitoring Google Groups like Usenet discussion forums for your site name is also recommended.   Though you are only limited to search the news.admin.net-abuse groups, this will help you identify if any spam reports were listed for your domain.

Here is the link: http://groups.google.com/groups?group=news.admin.net-abuse

Reminder: If you have not sent spam and you have found a precise spam report that contains the name of your domain, then it is likely that the email address has been forged. This just means that the spammer copied the email “From” field so it would look like the report was sent from your site.

You can see below the information on how to retrieve your IP/domain from the major blacklists.

 

ORDB (Open Relay Database)

How to get off:

If you want your relay to be removed from ORDB, use their checking queue http://ordb.org/submit/ and continue to resubmit your host IP.

Please remember that it could take up to 72 hours before the actual process for your request is done. ORDB will remove your host only if they have confirmed that your server is no longer an open relay.  Repairing one configuration error on your server won’t guarantee you that your host will be removed as there may be more errors that will make your server to be continuously listed as an open relay.

 

Spam Cop Blocking List

How to get off:

If you have managed to stop the spam, you will be removed within the maximum time of 48 hours since the latest spam complaint.

If you want to take an action against a user who is mistakenly accusing you of spamming, forward the following tomailto:blproblem@admin.spamcop.net

 

a.)    The complete SpamCop report containing the whole spam and full headers.

b.)    Evidence that the user in question has subscribed for your email course . It can be a log excerpt or a reproduction of the returned, sent email configuration. The IPs and date stamps for both a sign-up and a confirmation must be included.

 

SPEWS (Spam Prevention Early Warning System)

How to get off:

Compared to other block lists, SPEWS doesn’t accept spam submissions and recommendations. Items in SPEWS were created by the people who manage SPEWS for their own filtering and blocking requirements. This means that once you’re included in the lists, there’s nothing much an end user can do to be removed.

If SPEWS has listed your IP address, and if spam or any spamming activities hosting spammers and selling spamware from your IP address has stopped, it will leave from the list in due time. Usually the reason why an IP is being listed in SPEWS is when it gets involves in spam related issues with your host and all you have to do is to complain to them about the listing. Mainly, your host is the only one who is capable of removing the IP address out of the SPEWS list.

The IP address of your host will not be removed until the spam related issues are fixed. If your host or network is sure that there was a mistake regarding the listing, you should recommend to then to read the SPEWS FAQ page http://spews.org/faq.html then proceed by posting a thread in a public forum stated from the SPEWS FAQ with the SPEWS record number or the IP address in it. In order for a SPEWS developer or editor notice your message, type in the subject line as “SPEWS”. Keep in mind also that no SPEWS editor or developer will reply to the thread posted. The subject line will only help you get your listing to be double checked by the editor or SPEWS developer.

 

MAPS (Mail Abuse Prevention Center)

How to get off:

The first thing that you should do to get off from the MAPS RBLSM is to email them (rbl@mail-abuse.org) or contact them by phone if necessary (+1.408.453.6277). Let them know the IP address that you assume is being listed and inform them about what you’re doing or would like their assistance to become less prone to spammers. As soon as you show them your determination to stop the spamming activities from your means, they will then take you off of the MAPS RBL.

 

SPAMHAUS

How to get off:

You will find a “Removal Procedure” at the end of every SBL record page with an email link that is to be used to contact the SBL Team. To make sure that your message won’t be rejected, keep in mind that you must include the SBL reference number in the subject line. Make sure also that you have entered the correct reference numbers.