Back then, we had a hard time proving that our server was not a spammer. We had issues with outlook.com (and other Micro$oft domains) as well as gmail.com and yahoo.com. And Videotron still refuses to whitelist our IP address. They claim it is our message format which is not "compliant". OK, back to the beach and the pool now...................................⛱️⛱️⛱️ On Sun, Dec 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM Katie via linux <linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> wrote: > Hi Jean-Francois, > > I completely agree. One of my concerns is how this affects businesses, > such as Canadian web hosting companies. I feel it would be easy to think > "there's a problem with that company" when the 'problem' is not with the > specific company at all. > > -Katie > > On 2025-12-21 13:44, Jean-Francois Messier via linux wrote: > > It's been known that VPS's hosted at OVH are on black lists. We also > > had such issues for our linux-gatineau.org [2] email domain. There are > > more and more of such blocking, and this will persist until someone > > figures out a better way to authenticate email vs their actual source. > > > > > > On Sun, Dec 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM Katie via linux > > <linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> wrote: > > > >> Hello all, > >> > >> This has been fixed, and is now being monitored. Thank you all for > >> your > >> public and private input :) > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Katie > >> > >> On 2025-12-07 14:30, Dianne Skoll wrote: > >>> On Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:10:11 -0500 > >>> Katie via linux <linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> wrote: > >>> > >>>> I have communicated with my web host, who says that the problem > >> lies > >>>> with IP address: 51.161.115.83 > >>> > >>> That is: mailpro2.whc.ca [1]. > >>> > >>> It seems that that's your ISP's email server, and it is the one on > >> the > >>> blocklist. So WHC are the ones who need to fix it. > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> > >>> Dianne. > >> > >> To unsubscribe send a blank message to > >> linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > >> To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > >> To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org > > > > > > Links: > > ------ > > [1] http://mailpro2.whc.ca > > [2] http://linux-gatineau.org > > To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org > >