Since the day before yesterday, some of our customers complained having problems with receiving e-mail. The senders from the e-mail noticed that their mail had been blocked by relays.ordb.org. This RBL is offline, according to this article, at least everybody thought. Seems to me, the RBL came online yesterday and blocked everything. I have heard some rumours about the RBL coming online and blocking everything, so postmaster become aware of false configuration of the RBL lists in the mail components. Our customers were using Microsoft Exchange servers and were still using relays.ordb.org in their Connection Filtering rules. After deleting the URL the mail began to flows like nothing happend.

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René Jorissen

Co-owner and Solution Architect at QMonkeys

René Jorissen works as Solution Architect for QMonkeys in the Netherlands. Network Infrastructures are the primary focus. René works with equipment of multiple vendors, like HPE Networks, FortiNet, SentinelOne, Phished, Holm Security, Microsoft services and many more. René is Aruba Certified Edge Expert (ACEX #26), Aruba Certified Mobility Expert (ACMX #438), Aruba Certified ClearPass Expert (ACCX #725), Aruba Certified Design Expert (ACDX #760), CCNP R&S, FCNSP and Certified Ethical Hacker (CEF) certified. You can follow René on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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