SpamHaus

[ccast]

I have been using MaxBulk Mailer for a while, however, my last mailing would not go out.

I now receive a message from the mail server
"JunkMail rejected - " followed by my external IP address, my internal NAT address and the next line which states that address is in an RBL.

A URL is listed, http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?=74.xx.xx.xx which then takes me to a web site that indicates that the range of addresses I am in are in a Policy Based List (PBL)

IP Address Lookup
74.xx.xx.xxis not listed in the SBL
74.xx.xx.xis listed in the PBL, in the following records:
* PBL138272

74.xx.xx.xxis not listed in the XBL


Following the PBL link I see the message
Ref: PBL138272
74.76.0.0/14 is listed on the Policy Block List (PBL)

This IP range has been identified by Spamhaus as not meeting our policy for IPs which should deliver 'direct-to-mx' mail to PBL users

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So - My question is, why I am delivering 'direct-to-mx' mail? Why doesn't MaxBulk Mail operate with my ISP's POP server the same way other mail clients operate.

I have a very simple mailing list for members of a community group. Although I enjoy the automation of MaxBulk - I do not want to violate any bulk-mail policy of my ISP or become flagged as a spam source!

Are there setting in MaxBulk that I am not aware of that will basically make the email submitted to the POP Server appear to be just like it were coming from Thunderbird, for instance?

[stanbusk]

MaxBulk Mailer doesn't perform direct MX server deliveries. MaxBulk Mailer can only be used using a standard SMTP server. This is the reason why the settings panel ask you for your SMTP server. In that range of IPs I guess someone else has done direct MX server deliveries. You should contact the server postmaster.

[ccast]

OK - I figured it out. It must be that for a long time I was actually not fully authenticating and sending through my ISP mail server! It also must be that this ISP is tightening down and enforcing authentication for sending. As I read the log more carefully I found out what was missing.

I use HostForWeb and the setting that worked is ESMTP to the smtp server for my account. What I neglected in my set up is that my email username is actually "user+domainname" and I simply had user. Since that worked in the past I was off following other announcements in the messages that were returned without conquering the first, probably most important one - like user authentication failed.

Once the setting was corrected all is fine. Thank you for your help.