I began to wonder if I was spamming . . .

It's probably your upstream provider, or even further up the line.

Remember, these lists are blocking providers based on their hosting spammers, purveyors(sp?) of spam tools, and countries.

Kinda like being considered a suspect no matter how law abiding you are 'cause you live in a bad neighborhood. :^>

The three lists that are configured are these:

relays.ordb.org
relays.visi.com
bl.spamcop.net

The first two block open relay servers, while spamcop looks at blacklisted servers.

I've just noticed that Robert Allen's newsletter is blacklisted, too. Neil Shearing, Phil Wiley, and others have shown up.

Now, I read somewhere this morning that ORDB was shut down. Then I remember skimming an article that talked about email being blocked when they accessed the defunct ORDB.

It didn't mean much at the time - I was skimming for something else.

If ORDB is gone - I kept seeing references to it, even after reading someplace that it was offline - it could mean that there are false positives being reported.

Sigh. I wish I'd paid more attention, now. I'll see if I can backtrack to the specific page where the problem of it (ORDB) being shut down was mentioned. Then, I'll try to discover for sure if it's really gone.

In any event, the whole blacklisting thing is and will cause more and more problems for legitimate mailers, as ISPs employ knee-jerk solutions to the spam problem.

The trouble with blacklisting is that its a little like "throwing the baby out with the bath water." Any broad-based solution is bound to trap the good guys, too.

I'll let you know what I come up with. Meanwhile, you might contact your host to see what's what.

Mary