Spamcop is hardcore. In 2011 they blocked email originating from T-Online (Deutsche Telekom) for several weeks.
Spamhaus initially also blocked T-Online, but relented after a few days under pressure from Deutsche Telekom.
We got in hot water for that, as we were blocking incoming spam using a Spamcop RBL, and T-Online is probably the largest single email provider in Germany.
I researched the issue, and apparently the problem was that T-Online had EOL'd its dedicated server hosting business, and there were a lot of unmaintained, disused root servers sitting around. Many had been hacked, and were being used to send spam. In its infinite wisdom, Deutsche Telekom had set up the root servers to relay their outbound email, by default, through the same
mail servers that were sending the email for millions of T-Online managed hosting and dialup customers.
This was not a good idea.
So, while it was inconvenient, I can't fault Spamcop, and in fact I applaud them for their hardline approach. Just be warned.
Best,
Chris
This post suggests it's a general issue between yahoo/spamcop...
ChrisP.
over the last week, several of my users have told me (complained) that emails being sent to them by users of yahoo
mail servers are being rejected by us because the ip is apparently in
bl.spamcop.net. the sender gets:
Sorry, we were unable to deliver your message to the following address.
<redacted>:
what's interesting is that the senders' email addresses are not yahoo emails addresses, but contain domains like
sbcglobal.net and other company-specific domain names.
has anyone heard of something similar?
i know that spamcop has a somewhat tarnished reputation for being arbitrary in what they block, but i'm not sure removing it from my orbs list would be a good thing.
any ideas would be appreciated.
david camm
advanced web systems
keller, tx
