How to Avoid SPAMhaus?

    OK, I finished one of my servers setup for sending, everything was quite right, tested on the seed list on gmail and all seems inboxing.

    So I send my first campaign with only 1800 subscribers (only gmail and yahoo cleaned) list with 1 email per minute cron settings, and on the next day, the domain gets SPAMhaus DBL which is quite devastating for me, how the hell did I get in there??


    Tried to delist using the DBL domain removal form it and they reject in automatically, when I try to send support ticket it gaves me "An error occurred. Please try again."


    How to fix this?

    Ajie Wibowo


    In your case, it's either due to previous blacklist or spam trap. Please take note that Gmail & Yahoo do not use spamhaus - Hotmail, MSN, Outlook and Live use spamhaus data but they DO NOT report to spamhaus


    I suggest you might want to take out domain like .edu or .somepersonaldomain.com as they are very high chances of spamtrap - in other words, send only to gmail, yahoo, hotmail, aol etc...


    All you can do is to get yourself delisted: https://www.spamhaus.org/lookup/ if spamhaus do not accept then you cannot do anything.


    It is very important to know that there are a few things that triggers spamhaus:

    1 - Spamtrap (Honey pot)

    2 - Complains

    3 - Bad IP neighbourhood


    Hope this helps


    Tips: As of now, only send to Gmail and Yahoo until your are cleared from spamhaus as they will automatically clear your IP after 14 - 30 days