how to monitor,or be notified of email blacklisting ?

[Dotan Cohen]

2010/3/12 Markus Schönhaber <ubuntu-server at list-post.mks-mail.de>:
> 12.03.2010 13:20, Rudi Ahlers:
>
>> Does anyone know how I can monitor our server's for blacklisting? We
>> run a large amount of shared hosting & reseller hosting servers and
>> from time to time one of the IP's will get blacklisted. I'm looking
>> for a way to be notified if any of our IP's get blacklisted. Is this
>> possible?
>
> Of course that's possible.
> Among the possibilities are:
> - Creating a script that checks your IP(s) against the relevant
>  blacklists and run it regularly (by cron, for example).
> - Creating a plugin for the monitoring software of your choice
>  (or using an existing one) and let that do the check.
>
> Take a look here
> http://www.heise.de/netze/artikel/Verdrehte-Abfrage-223890.html
> for a standalone shell script and here
> http://www.heise.de/netze/artikel/Nagios-Plugin-223892.html
> for a nagios plugin (which I use BTW).
> The article itself is in German but the script and the plugin should be
> understandable nevertheless.
>

Note that this is exactly what I meant by "you have to check
yourself". Script it.


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