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At last someone commented me with the hurting truth and i know you truly experienced the ovh , then only someone can comment like this. Thank you Jarland
On the first day of work in this New Year, I was greeted by a bunch of spam in my email. This is unusual as I run greylisting and have spamassassin dialed in pretty well. So I decided to start my day off looking at the headers and using IP whois. Every spam email was from a .bid domain from an IP owned by OVH. I forwarded every spam email to [email protected]. I never got a response, but although I can empathize with your problem as a provider, I am glad OVH is doing something about the spam. In the past, I complained many times to CC without effect.
Ah, the good ol' .bid domains...
I've sent some rather (relatively) large email campaigns from OVH VPS's, not once have I been suspended.
The only way you'll be suspended, is if OVH manually confirms that you've sent spam.
And given that he got 2 warnings for it, I suppose he didn't change a thing between then and the final booting.
Kinda glad too OVH is cleaning up because OVH will be the source of the spam or the webserver IP of the spammed URLs in the email. Maybe they were getting threats from Spamhaus.
Maybe but they'll definitely block SMTP at least without anything more than automation tied in with vade retro.
@Aidan They automatically block IPs that [is sending mail with a] high spam scores, if the spam score is low you can send all you want. If someone reports mail spam that's when they manually check. I've send tens of thousands of e-mails on OVH and never had an automatic block.
Edit: Before I trigger anyone, this isn't me defending their spam blocking system or whatever, just saying how it works.
I think they don't allow spam, dos and similar.
http://www.novogara.com/info/faq
Nobody can really advertise they are breaking the law, except someone who is proud of it, but will not last long in this world. They will be nullrouted if not worse.
And will receive mail from those ranges anyway...
I send ~100k mails/month with the cheapest OVH VPS and it works fine.
Oh, there are people on this very forum that are sadly go to for that, and proud of it too.
Exactly my point, some people can be proud of braking the law, we have an illustrious example here, however, that does not mean they will last long. People who do that have a serious problem elsewhere, if the arm of the law wont catch up with them, they will do something else even more stupid, eventually.
Lol you clearly don't know Ecatel or Novogara.
They're literally known as a safe haven for cyber criminals
Spam is serious issue, no cheap provider will tolerate it.
You're actually taking your time to get that Provider tag
I personally think that just banning spammers is way too soft. Actually they should be shot. First, say in their leg, as a serious warning.
Spammers are among the worst of scum and create billions in damage and they should be held liable and the punishment should be hard enough to make spamming very unattractive.
In the ass or genitals would be a better message. The ass cause that's where their shit comes from and the genitals so they can't reproduce.
most hosting providers will give you one or two warnings before terminating your server, but if the servers were just set up and the spam started almost as soon as you got your hands on them, termination is almost a given
Did you even read the two sentences the OP wrote?
I think he did. He's stating the obvious :P
? jpg makes no sense. you are admin and I see that signature all the time. heh
nm. i see what you are getting at...
I like how the OP is upset that they suspended/terminated his service for not responding to requests to resolve issues regarding the security of their network. How dare they!
Quasi Networks / Acasia Networks now