19 Sep
2013
19 Sep
'13
11:21 a.m.
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:59:13AM -0500, John LeCoque wrote:
I would say the first step is to find an immediate workaround for your end users - maybe bring up a VM on AWS or some other cloud provider to use as an SMTP relay while you work out the blacklist issue.
Not a good idea. It's a best practice to refuse *all* email traffic out of Amazon's cloud because (a) it's a prodigous source of spam and other forms of abuse and (b) Amazon absolutely refuses to lift a finger to address the problem. (Just try submitting an abuse report and notice all the hoop-jumping they've put in the way in a quite obvious, deliberate attempt to make it as difficult as possible.) ---rsk