[dba-Tech] Seeking your advice regarding false positives for spam lists

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Fri Feb 5 03:38:48 CST 2010


It's more likely to be their IP address (either the public  IP address they are sending through 
or their domain's MX record) which is blacklisted, rather than actual their domain name.

You can check whether they appear on any blacklists using the lookup tools at 
http://www.mxtoolbox.com

-- 
Stuart



On 5 Feb 2010 at 9:23, Mark Breen wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> I have a customer with six employees.  They are a government linked
> childcare related organisation.  Their primary role in life is to dispense
> funds to local pre-school child care businesses here in Ireland.
> 
> They have been noticing that they often get told that their emails were in
> the spam folder of their recipient.
> 
> I did some tests yesterday sending from their email addresses to a few of my
> gmail accounts and all of their emails went to google's spam folder.
> 
> Could they have gotton themselves onto a so called black list?
> Do such things really exist and is it really so easy to get on one of these
> lists?
> I have to presume that if they exist and if you get on one, there is no easy
> way to get off such a list?
> If so, what do you suggest?  Register a similar domain name and cease use of
> the old domain name?
> 
> Thanks for your suggestions and comments.
> 
> Mark
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