Email blacklist check

Find the cause first: the list’s website shows when and why the address was added. Usually it is an infected computer or a hacked website that sent spam, or a web form open to anyone. Fix that, or the address will be listed again. Then request removal through the form on the list’s website; many lists also drop an address on their own after a few days. If the address belongs to your hosting provider or ISP, contact their support: they usually request removal. We check open lists, including SpamCop, UCEPROTECT, PSBL and Mailspike. Spamhaus isn’t included: its data is paid for public services.

Most often spam was sent without your knowledge: an infected computer on the network, a stolen mailbox or website password, or a contact form that bots use to send mail. Sometimes it isn’t your fault at all: the address came from a previous owner, or neighbours on the provider’s network send spam and the list blocked the whole range, as UCEPROTECT levels 2 and 3 do. We check only level 1, which lists individual addresses.

We did not get a reliable answer from that list. It may have timed out or restricted queries from our server. We test list availability with known test addresses and keep that test result for up to ten minutes. Unavailable lists are excluded from the total, rather than treated as clean. Try again later or use the lookup on the list’s website.