My MiaB seems to have stopped talking to me?
I did get the “This domain is listed in the Spamhaus Domain Block List (code 127.0.1.2), which may prevent recipients from receiving your mail. See Domain Blocklist (DBL) | Domain DNSBL for email filtering and http://www.spamhaus.org/query/domain/box.myvps.com”
for the 2nd time, and this time they told me, I’m in a bad neighborhood, so - sorry - you’re staying on our list.
Not that this matters, but I have to find a whole new home for my VPS?
Regardless, I don’t seem to be getting status messages from MiaB - Mail Totals - Software updates - that sort of thing … Is this due to the Spamhaus listing? Does MiaB change its behavior if this is in the System Status Checks?
I saw via /admin there were software packages that can be updated - so I SSH’d in and did the apt update && apt upgrade -y - rebooted as requested - but still - no email updates.
The last administrative email I got from MiaB was over 17 days ago - the one with email totals. The “Mail-in-a-Box Usage Report” … The last Status Checks Change Notice was 5 days before that.
Should I be alarmed, or is this normal behavior?
If you are in blacklist, up to my knowledge and experience you(mail server) will not be able to send/receive emails. Try to get it whitelisted from the blocked list. You may need to follow their procedures to get whitelisted.
As this is related to domain black list, you may need to check with your users, and inform them not to send bulk mails etc.
i think you will not been able to send/receive mails by changing vps., because it only changes your static ip. This block isn’t related to ip block.
either you have to change the domain name of the box(example.com) or you may need to get the domain whitelisted from the blocked lists.
Try mxtoolbox.com → blacklist this will show twhere you got blacklisted.
Hi - and thanks for your reply - replies are few and far between.
I am not concerned with the blocklist as I now realize Spamhaus is a joke … They continue to block me due to my neighborhood. In America, that’s called discrimination, but they’re allowed to deny you services based on your neighborhood - sorry, neighbourhood.
Mail still flows regardless of this meaningless listing, but MiaB likes to announce “Errors” and “Warnings” that are neither - I wanted to know if this was a MiaB philosophy - to cease admin emails based on this non-issue?
I am concerned that the MiaB has not been sending administrative messages. It’s gone silent and I’d like to know why.
… and just for anyone’s FYI, here is the message from Spamhaus to tell me to go pound sand:
It should be considered that:
myvps[.]com
Appears to be within an Internet neighbourhood with “poor reputation” that shares (or inevitably will share) its negative reputation with this domain.
This may be due to the DNS servers, the hosting service, the registrar, the IPs used, the reputation of that network or some combination of these and other factors.
You may be able to check the Hosting/Registrar domain reputation here:
https://www.spamhaus.org/reputation-statistics/registrars/domains/
This cumulative negative reputation has an adverse affect on any related domains, including this one. This domain is not eligible for removal while being associated with this neighbourhood. We recommend moving your domain to a hosting network with a bettter reputation. Please remember to investigate fully before deciding on a new home for this domain.
The information provided in these FAQs may be helpful:
Why is a domain listed in DBL?
FAQs | Domain Blocklists (DBL)| IP DNSBL | Spamhaus
What is the right way to send marketing e-mail?
FAQs | Sending marketing emails - advice for marketers
Regards,
Marvin Adams
Disregarding the spamhaus listing for the moment, it should not impact the functioning of mailinabox.
Try the following. Ssh into your box then check sudo journalctl -u mailinabox, see if there are errors there.
You can also run sudo management/status_checks.py to see if something funky is up with the status of the box.
If that is all ok, it might be the box is eating it’s own mails due to the spamhaus listing. That should not happen, but who knows. What version of mailinabox are you on?
Thanks for your reply!
I didn’t see anything in journalctl that sets off any bells and the management/status_checks.py showed basically what the /admin web shows …
Thanks again!
Check if something like sudo grep -i "blocked using" /var/log/mail.log | grep -i spamhaus gives you something. Perhaps this can confirm your own box’s mails are rejected.
Just to follow up - in setting up my new mail server (in a better neighbourhood), rspamd has revealed why my MiaB has stopped talking to me. It IS because of the Spamhaus DBL listing … in fact, it’s not just the mail server’s domain name that this has an impact on … it’s every domain that this domain serves … Absolutely terrible what Marvin Adams has put me through - just terrible.
Also terrible; MiaB won’t send me (and you) messages because it has a bad reputation … I mean, it’s on the same box - I’m the administrator - the postmaster - the hostmaster general … it’s just a task of putting a file in a folder and I get it in my MUA … Another questionable decision by MiaB.
So another VPS, a fresh Ubuntu 26 install and all the latest and greatest softwares - mail flows at my whim - I did borrow some MiaB ideas … particularly 15-mailboxes.conf …
So thanks Spamhaus, the straw that broke my back … Done with being told I’m doing things wrong everyday when everything is setup perfect … All of my new Server Status results are green … I guess until Spamhaus doesn’t like my neighbours.