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18 Oct 2022, 11:30 AM | #1 |
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How Do I Remove Myself From A Blacklist?
I am using the current version of Thunderbird. My email address is a gmail.com email.
I have discovered that I am on a blacklist called SORBS. Sometimes my email goes the the SPAM folder of the person receiving my email message and I am told that the incoming mail server may see the blacklist and send my email to the recipient's SPAM folder. I have no idea how I got on the blacklist as i am not a marketing or email company that sends marketing emails. Can someone please tell me how a person gets onto a blacklist and how I can be removed. Thanks very much for your help. Bill |
18 Oct 2022, 01:21 PM | #2 |
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18 Oct 2022, 07:03 PM | #3 |
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18 Oct 2022, 11:28 PM | #5 | |
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I found a website called mail-tester.com. You bring up the website and they give an email address to send your email to. After you send the email you click on the test results button and it gives you 10 items that it rates your email message according to if your message is a spam candidate. When I send my email message to mail-tester.com it is giving me a score of 7.2 out of 10. It is counting a full point off because it says I am on the blacklist called SORBS. As I said in my post I am not a company (marketing) but an individual person sending an email. I think the mail-tester.com site is pretty good. Thanks, SlideshowBob |
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Does the mail-tester website also show the specific reason for the SORBS blacklist? Quote:
In the first case it's likely that the IP address your device has now has been used in the past by someone else, who sent spam. Note that the IP address that the outside world sees as yours might be shared with many other people; if you're on a LAN or a wifi network, it's the IP address of the whole network that represents all of you to the outside world. So if any of the other people using that have sent spam at any point in the past, that whole network's users would see this problem. In the second case, whether the block gets lifted probably depends on who that server belongs to - if it's a reputable email company then they will probably have had complaints from many of their users and will do something about it (not least finding out which other of their users sent spams that got the server blacklisted) It would help to know which mail service is sending your mails. Last edited by JeremyNicoll : 19 Oct 2022 at 05:06 AM. |
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19 Oct 2022, 05:05 AM | #7 |
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19 Oct 2022, 05:59 AM | #8 |
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I just sent a test message to mail-tester.com from gmail. The gmail outgoing server was listed on SORBS. If you saw the SORBS listing in the bottom part of the mail-tester results, under Blocklists, then that's what happened.
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19 Oct 2022, 07:01 AM | #9 |
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19 Oct 2022, 07:35 PM | #10 |
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By any chance is the receiving email address managed by a Microsoft service like Exchange or Outlook.com? I have found that Microsoft routinely funnels all sorts of legitimate email into the Junk folder and it is nearly impossible to prevent it. If you use Microsoft for your email be sure to check the Junk folder every day.
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20 Oct 2022, 02:26 AM | #11 |
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I just tested a Gmail address at mail-tester and the overall score was a 9/10, but I am listed in a blacklist at SORBS. Unfortunately, many Gmail IPs get listed on SORBS. If you are sending direct from the Gmail web interface or the Gmail app there is probably not much you can do about it. It would be up to Gmail to follow up, which I imagine they have to do regularly with lots of spammers using gmail addresses. However, your message is a bit lower scored on mail-tester. I am only getting 1 point off for SORBS. Is anything else listed to knock off the additional 1.8 points when you run mail-tester?
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26 Oct 2022, 11:44 PM | #12 |
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Sorbs listings won't cause spam folder delivery anywhere I'm aware of, I would move on to the next idea. Most writers on this topic make a lot of assumptions that they can't verify. It makes studying things like this very difficult, it's a very strange topic in that way.
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27 Oct 2022, 03:06 AM | #13 |
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Bill, you say that your have a gmail.com email address but that you are using an email client (Thunderbird) rather than web-based email. I hope you realize that due to DMARC and other authentication features, you must use the gmail SMTP outgoing email server to send from an email client. Without viewing the full headers of the messages arriving in spam folders it’s hard to guess what’s causing your difficulty.
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