I'm sorry for disturbing the mailing list, but SpamAssassin has marked my 
company's server as a spammer. This was because our ISP failed to respond to 
the DNSBL's requests, so it was black listed. I corrected this problem and I am 
working on getting my ISP to be more responsive, but I am frustrated by 
SpamAssassin which seems to cache old entries. Christopher Faylor responded 
that he needed more information, so I responded to his request.
Guess what? My response was blocked by SpamAssassin. Since the Cygwin web site 
offers no other method of communication except email, this left me with a 
problem. I am solving that problem by disturbing this list. Sorry.

So, this message is directed to Christopher Faylor:

===
I provided the info I had - just not the bounced message. SpamAssassin uses 
various DNSBL providers including the one I referenced. In the bounce was the 
URL I specified as the reason I was banned. Not much else was included.

I'll try to respond with the actual bounce. But the source of the information 
seems to be cached rather than updated from the source by SpamAssassin. Can you 
clear your cache?
===

Which bounced, so here is a copy of the bounce:
===
Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients. 

Subject: Fw: Undeliverable: Re: Please help! We are not SPAMMERS 
Sent: 11/25/2008 6:18 PM 

The following recipient(s) could not be reached: 

  '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' on 11/25/2008 6:18 PM
  There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient's email server. 
Please contact your system administrator.
  <bpc-hs-mx1.biopop.com #5.5.0 smtp;550 Blocked 
http://www.spamsources.fabel.dk/ip/216.27.67.217> 
===

If you follow the indicated web site from fabel.dk (as I indicated in my first 
message) you will find that this site is no longer blocked. But your 
SpamAssassin is still blocking it. This implies that it has cached this 
information.

Can you please clear your cache, or otherwise address this problem?

Thanks,

-Allan


      

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