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Starhugger
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New dedicated IP and blacklisting - 7/21/2008 23:46:58
I am on a trial 30 days with a new web host. I signed up for an account with a dedicated IP so that I wouldn't get slotted in with spammers in a shared IP (which I believe was happening with my previous host). I did my first mailing list mailout (just under 500 addresses) a few days ago. In less than 5 minutes, a few bounced back saying emails from my IP were "temporarily deferred due to user complaints." What the--??? I just got this IP!!
I've contacted the mail server (Yahoo.ca) and explained the situation to them and hope this will solve the problem for the moment. But it's got me wondering: is it possible that I inherited an IP that was previously used by a spammer or other form of vermin? Is this something that my new webhost should have checked out first? Or is that error perhaps becoming the default excuse Yahoo is using these days?
I'm very discouraged and frustrated because this was precisely the thing I was trying to get away from by changing webhosts and getting a dedicated IP. It seems a bit like moving and getting a new phone number, only to find that it was previously used by a nasty telemarketer or heavy breather.
I do have an SPF record set up now, but wasn't able to do it until the next day. I just checked and thankfully I'm not in spamhaus.org.
Thanks in advance for any (more) wisdom about this.
Starhugger
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Tailslide
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RE: New dedicated IP and blacklisting - 7/22/2008 2:34:32
This is one of the reasons that I always recommend clients use a hosted mailing solution - it does mean that you have to fork out money for your mailing lists etc but it takes away all this worry.
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