IP / Spam Damage control

Once you've plugged your holes, and rid your mail server of spam; you need to assess the damage.

If you send a lot of mail though Hotmail, you might consider joining their SNDS site which tells you if your being blocked by their site, and gives you your IP status history, and an excerpt of offending mail headers.

The offending mail header is really helpful to finding out who is sending out the spam.

In the example above, you can clearly see that the sender is "bogdan@fx.ro". This might be helpful if you are having trouble tracking down the culprit at the server level.

I recently learned of another service which I use religiously now called SENDERBASE. You can check the status of your IP on a more global scale, and see if server are still receiving spam from you.

So this is now part of my morning routine. I peruse both sites for my IP reputation. This will give me a heads-up before your IP provider contacts you about it. You can say that you've already fixed the problem.

addendum: If your listed on sites like spamcop, ipblacklist, and others of the like; most of them do provide a way to get de-listed. You will of course need to provide information about what occurred, and what you did to eliminate the issue.