How to check for banned and blacklisted E-Mail Adress
For verify, I use an hotmail account with @ forward of spam->inbox.
how can I check if it is blacklisted?
do YOu create your mail accounts yourself? which provider? perhaps you buy them via a service= fivver 500 hotmai accounts eg?
I dont want to use one of my private domains I own for an mailbox, to not ban the domain ........
how can I check if it is blacklisted?
do YOu create your mail accounts yourself? which provider? perhaps you buy them via a service= fivver 500 hotmai accounts eg?
I dont want to use one of my private domains I own for an mailbox, to not ban the domain ........
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I already requested this feature here. But Sven ingnored it since no body liked the idea. Maybe If you guys can show some support at that thread we can convince Sven to add it.
BTW , it's not fully my idea ... I was inspired by a web 2.0 software called FCS Networker.
This feature is a HUGE time saver and it will make managing emails in SER a breeze and you will never have to worry about adding/changing/replacing blacklisted emails with a new one.
yes, one mail was on a german blacklikst site..
went to gigbucks to order 300 hotmails now.
I HATE FIVVER!!! tried it three times their. one time they even closed my account ("was an error in our software".
Why waste time swapping out emails?
Chances are the ips you use are already blacklisted
Most of the blacklists not only block on email, they also work on ip.
Either and or, type blocking.
You could always waste more time by having Sven include an ip black list check, so you can then moan to your proxy providers that you want fresh, virgin proxies, which can take anywhere from I comment to 1 million comments to get blacklisted
the benefit of this method is that only one email get blacklistet and you only have to replace this, login information is the same for all of them. this is usefull if you use the %spinfile-<filename>% method to replace your emails, no mess around with login information.
@LeeG - What you say makes perfect sense about 'both' emails and ip addresses causing the flag to be thrown. You are challenging conventional wisdom which I like. However...if that were true, why is it that when I change emails, I do not continue to see that IP automatically flagged going forward. If what you said was true, changing emails would not help. But it does seem to help.
@theorbital - That's it. Or just have a colored alert at the bottom of the GSA screen that you have bad emails, and when you click on it, it lists the projects affected.
I used to fight spam prior to giving in and moving to the dark side
I use my knowledge both ways now
One system for tracking guests on a well known forum system was documented by me when I converted to track unwanted visitors. That used to be a good backlink. I have also spent a lot of time using different anti spam measures including project honeypot and stop forum spam.
I still use the vodka and rice, dont think twice rule, to this day on my own moderating of my own websites
Most vodka drinking countries have wised up these days and tend to use proxies to spam.
If you ever find find your email is blacklisted on stop forum spam, you will also see ips get logged
Run a search on the ip next time and you will see how many email addresses have been logged against that ip
An automatic check for blacklisted emails is definitely a great addition to SER. Automatic bad email replacement also is a killer feature imo.
I just don't think those IP's are permanently banned. If they were, then the planet would have run out of IP's by now. But emails on the other hand are the kiss of death.
Stop forum spam, its user choice on what period they access the archives from.
Ie 1 month, 2 months 6 months etc.
The longer the access period, the longer it takes to check a new member on registration
The only way to clear your details is to access their system from the ip to have it removed from the database
Project honeypot is three months of zero spam from an ip from memory
Project honeypot are snidey with how they catch people, follow the wrong hidden link with automated software and bang, you caught. Scrape links and some of those links are found.
Wow. Didn't know that. Very useful information.
I don't know if you know about IPV6, but that adds like a trilllion trillion ip's to the mix for our planet. Maybe that will help with the proxy issue going forward.
I got caught in project honeypot with my home ip when I used to use a proxy scraper once
I never set it to not follow nofollow links
Its as easy as that.
Project honeypot also have different levels of spam warnings for ips
Again, thats set on a site by site level for who they allow access to their sites
There are a lot of software developers use their database for ip banning
run it as a command line application with one argument and that being the email address you want the list to be sent to. so: c:\Users\administrator\desktop\>SER_email_checker.exe youremail@gmail.com
it only checks stopforumspam.com at this time.
it will email you an attachment with a csv file containing the project,email,# of results in the stopforumspam database.
Here is the virustotal
Here is the email checker
since this is a command line app you can set up windows scheduler to run this every day and you will get an email or you can obviously just run it yourself.
Bad Behaviour is another anti spam mod that uses different means to stop spam.
Utilises Project Honeypot and a few other methods
Another one which is a spin off from Project honeypot is Cloud Flare
These guys act a firewall and draw their blacklists from various places
Both of the above are used a lot.
Cloudflare are in with a lot of the big server companies and have a simple click to activate feature in the server admin panels
So, are you getting the idea why changing your email as often as you change your underpants, might just be a time killing exercise
I personally think email blacklisting is blown out of proportion.
Its a paranoia that some people seem to suffer with
Its easy to get blacklisted. It can take one post to 1 million to get caught
You could swap out your email, then bang, first link posted on the wrong site and you have just wasted the time its taken to add it
Plus ser might be waiting on checking links with the original one
Its part and parcel of link spam.
Another big player is Akismet and they have been about for years
A lot of the more common websites have integration with them. And they are barstuards
See how easy it is to get an ip or domain delisted from their database with those guys
If your going to be paranoid about your email, either run a catch all or swap it out when you get new proxies. Thats my opinion. All I have done is highlight that there are far more ways to get blacklisted than an email address
All this wanting alarm bells and topless women dancing in front of you when an email gets caught, imo is just plain paranoia, when your missing the bigger picture
I just run hotmail accounts and cant remember when I last changed them
Set to 15 minutes between checks
But Im a lazy sob
@theobital - Thanks a million! I appreciate the work you put into this, and will give this a shot later today.
@LeeG - I don't doubt a word you said. You are probably the only person on this board that has direct experience with this whole matter. When I was spamming with SB direct to the moneysite a couple of years back, I couldn't leave a link on millions of domains because of the url of my moneysite. So this whole thing can go deeper than IP's and email.