Steve Angelo put forth on 3/8/2011 11:25 AM: > I recently moved my production server from Rackspace to AWS and Amazon is > now having a PBL issue that may take days to resolve and my IP is listed so > most of the mail is not going out due to PBL from Spamhaus.
You should have asked for advice before switching. Everyone and his grandmother would have told you that sending mail from a cloud, especially Amazon, will always be fraught with delivery issues. Clouds and VPS are cheap. Snowshoe spammers tend to gravitate to the cheapest hosting they can find. They pay for a month with stolen credit cards, give false identification/contact info, spam for a month while the complaints are still coming in, then, right before the provider makes the decision to boot them, whoosh, they vanish without a trace, already having their next operation up and spamming. Rinse, repeat. Thus, unfortunately, legit senders who jump at the cheapest hosting are invariably treated the same as spammers by receivers, and, in some cases, by dnsbls. BTW, if that Amazon IP space is on the PBL as you mention, it very likely won't be coming off any time soon. SBL listings expire. PBL listings tend to last a very long time, as it is usually the netblock owner that puts it in the PBL. -- Stan
