CampusActivism.org Blacklisted for "Spam"
Submitted by akreider on Fri, 01/21/2011 - 19:09.
My site got blacklisted by hotmail and several other major email providers because my blog requires email verification for new users!
I get hundreds of requests (from spammers) per year to be blog users. So the website was emailing them and it was bouncing. This got me on a black list (and 300+ emails that I sent yesterday bounced).
The solution is to turn off email verification. I tell user applicants that they need to manually email me when they apply, so the automated email verification is unnecessary.
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On second look it appears
On second look it appears that an old deactivated version of phpBB (a forum) had a page called ucp.php which was somehow sending out the emails. The phpbb had been read-only for over two years.