Removing Your Mail Server From Popular Blacklists

Removing Your Mail Server From Popular Blacklists
– Includes links to popular blacklist checkers too –

If you run an e-mail server, one day it’s bound to happen… You’re going to land on a blacklist somewhere and your normal mailflow is going to get disrupted. We deal with this fairly regularly and decided to write up a quick article to assist other email administrators with blacklist removal links to the most popular blacklisting organizations – in a single, easy to use location.

Note : This is a live document and may have frequent updates, check back often!

BLACKLIST CHECKERS

Blacklist checkers are often the first resource to hit if you suspect you’ve been blacklisted. the most popular blacklist checkers are listed below. You should routinely check multiple checkers listed below to ensure your sending mail server(s) are not listed.

• MX Toolbox Blacklist : http://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx
• MultiIRBL : http://multirbl.valli.org/lookup
• Online Domain Tools Blacklist Checker : http://mail-blacklist-checker.online-domain-tools.com
• WhatIsMyIPAddress Blacklist Checker : http://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check
• DNSBL : http://www.dnsbl.info
• IP Void Blacklist Checker : http://www.ipvoid.com
• MYIP-Address Blacklist Checker : http://myip-address.com/blacklist

 

DIRECT LINKS

The links below will allow you to lookup and often remove yourself from blacklists maintained by the organizations listed. These are some of the most popular sites where having a mail server blacklisted will impact delivery the most.

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America Online (AOL)
Domain(s) Affected: aol.com

• https://postmaster.info.aol.com (AOL Postmaster Central, Info)
• https://postmaster.info.aol.com/trouble-ticket (AOL Removal Process)

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AT&T Blacklist
Domain(s) Affected: ameritech.net, att.net, bellsouth.net, flash.net, nvbell.net, pacbell.net, prodigy.net, sbcglobal.net, snet.net, swbell.net, wans.net

• http://rbl.att.net/cgi-bin/rbl/block_admin.cgi

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Barracuda / Barracuda Central
Domain(s) Affected: Any

• http://www.barracudacentral.org/rbl/removal-request

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Blacklist.IE
Domain(s) Affected: Any

• http://www.blacklist.ie

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Google
Domain(s) Affected: gmail.com

• https://support.google.com/mail/contact/msgdelivery
  

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Invaluement
Domain(s) Affected: Any

• http://www.invaluement.com/removal

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LashBack
Domain(s) Affected: Any

• http://blacklist.lashback.com

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Passive Spam Black List (PSBL)
Domain(s) Affected: any

• http://psbl.org/remove

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Sender Score
Domain(s) Affected: Any

• https://senderscore.org/rtbl

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SpamCop
Domain(s) Affected: Any

• https://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml

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SpamHaus
Domain(s) Affected: Any

• https://www.spamhaus.org/lookup

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SPAM Rats
Domain(s) Affected: Any

• http://www.spamrats.com/removal.php

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SURBL
Domain(s) Affected: Any

• http://www.surbl.org/surbl-analysis

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UCE Protect
Domain(s) Affected: Any

• http://www.uceprotect.net/en/rblcheck.php

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Yahoo
Domain(s) Affected: yahoo.com, ymail.com

Note: Yahoo uses SenderScore to assist with mail validity, any scores under ’80’ will result in delivery issues. They also incorporate SpamHaus SPAM prevention, so you should check both of these resources also (links below). You can apply to Yahoo as a bulk mailer if you send a lot of emails to Yahoo domains, this will greatly reduce the number of times you may be blacklisted. The request form can be found here: https://io.help.yahoo.com/contact/index?y=PROD_POST&page=contactform

• https://senderscore.org/rtbl
• https://www.spamhaus.org/lookup