Email "spam" (AKA "UCE" Unsolicited Commercial Email) will not be tolerated incoming or outgoing at Vintners.net. Please see our Spam Management page for additional information.

• Vintners.net maintains an active stance at barring incoming spam. Any system (IP address and/or domain name) that delivers spam messages to a Vintners.net mail system will be blocked from doing so again by being added to the Local Blocklist. Once a system has made it onto this blocklist, any further attempts to send any email to any Vintners.Net domain will result in a "550 error".

• If your site has made it onto the Local Blocklist (see above), namely you were to receive a "550 error" from Vintners.net, we will be more than happy to work with you on clearing the problem. For us to resolve the problem, you must forward a complete copy of the "bounce" email to our abuse department.

• [20180826 - outhouse has been discontinued.] Click on the following link to remove an entry from the Local Blocklist auto-remover.

• Vintners.Net is extremely proactive in preventing spam from reaching it's customers. Beyond our own Local Blocklist (see above), we are also paid subscribers of the Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS). We also utilize several well known free "RBL" blocklists; exactly which ones are in use at any moment can be determined on the Mail handling Statistics page.

• Vintners.net customers are encouraged to email to the postmaster of their domain if receiving repeated spam emails. When repeated offenses are confirmed, that site will be added to the Local Blocklist. Please observe this protocol, as Vintners.Net has chosen to require a "paper trail" of offenses in order to justify our actions, should the need arise. Please forward the complete email, including complete headers at our abuse department. (Without complete headers we can do nothing -- please ask if in doubt.)

• Please visit our Mail handling Statistics page for the current mail rejection statistics -- you will almost certainly be astonished! On any given day, typically 50%-60% of the email sent to our server is rejected as spam from known spammer sites.