ordb.org bans the world - MTA admins take note

Kasyx said:

A couple of problems?

It was like the apocalypse

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"At noon today (Eastern Standard Time), the long dead ORDB spam identification system began returning false positives as a way to get sleeping users to remove the ORDB query from their spam filters. The net effect: all mail is blocked on servers still configured to use the ORDB service, which was taken out of commission in December of 2006. So if you're not getting any mail, check your spam filter configuration!"

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Kasyx said:

Yeah, we got hit with around 45 of our clients last Wednesday and Thursday, and since then there have been another 20 or so trickling through. Had to deal with another one just today. I can understand why they did it... But still... I spent well over 16 hours working on clients who were suddenly blacklisted...

The worst though, is the client who complains about the blocked emails "Oh all the emails are blocked in MailWatch, we need you to release them from quarantine, but we don't want you to release everything, just the emails that aren't spam". At which point I have to sit in the MailWatch releasing each email that I think isn't spam.

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Datura said:

I don't understand why you are still using them despite the fact that they announced their plans to close in 2006. Am I missing something here? Just curious.

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Kasyx said:

When you have 400 odd servers using ORDB (as well as SORBS and spamhaus, etc), you just sort of leave it because you figure ordb.org will just stop resolving and (postifx, spamassassin, whatever) will just skip on over to the next RBL database.

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