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Blacklist check

Check a sending IP against the blocklists receivers actually consult.

What a listing means, and what it does not

Blocklists are what a receiving mail server consults before accepting a connection. A listing on a widely used one means your mail is being rejected or spam-foldered right now, at scale, and usually without a bounce you would recognise as the cause.

A listing is almost always a symptom rather than a cause. The common origins are a compromised mailbox sending on your behalf, a misconfigured relay accepting mail it should not, a marketing send to an old list, or simply a neighbour on shared hosting. Delisting without fixing the origin gets you relisted, often within hours, and repeat listings are treated more harshly.

We check a deliberately short list of reputable blocklists rather than fifty obscure ones. A checker that queries every list in existence produces alarming results that mean very little, and people act on them.

Common questions

I am listed. What now?

Find the cause first. Check for compromised accounts and look at what your server has actually been sending. Then use the delisting page of the specific list; each runs its own.

A list did not answer. Am I clean?

Unknown, not clean. Several lists rate-limit queries, and we report a non-answer as unknown rather than folding it into a pass.