how to monitor,or be notified of email blacklisting ?

[Eric Peters]

Now that I have had some coffee....
Script would be the best way, but fear not you don't have to re-invent
the wheel. rbl look up script, you may have to tweak it.

http://www.sfr-fresh.com/unix/misc/host-20070128.tar.gz:a/host-20070128/rblookup.sh

Cheers,
Eric




On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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