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Our testing team uses email addresses from a domain which is different from the actual site domain. For example, our site is www.abc.com and email addresses are belongs to user_x@xyz.com.

www.abc.com is using noreply@abc.com configured with Dyn email service (with valid SPF and DKIM keys).

At the receiving end, user_x@xyz.com is configured in opentransfer mail service.

Since, repeated mails are sent simultaniously for testing purpose, our IP range is now blacklisted by bl.spamcannibal.org and bl.spamcop.net.

Can someone help me with the steps to whitelist my IP ranges ?

Amol
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    In addition to Jack's answer, you may also want to look into using smtp-sink (part of the postfix package) on your test servers. It will act like a real MTA, but will send the test messages to /dev/null. As to whitelisting, your IP will be de-listed automatically (probably within a week or two) if you cease the behavior that triggered the blacklisting. – Aaron Jan 12 '16 at 05:58

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The simple answer is you cannot - SpamCop provides no way to remove your IP range from the Blacklist or add yourself to the Whitelist.

You have a few options here:

1) Stop actually sending email for testing purposes, if it is really that numerous. Pipe it to a file or just rely on the logs to test if email is leaving the application. When the emails stop, your reputation should improve slowly.

2) Set up your testing domain as a valid domain, with SPF records and DKIM keys, and only send test emails to valid addresses that will not mark the emails as spam. The "legitimate" traffic may also help to improve your reputation.

As a general rule, try not to spam for any reason. At the end of the day, testing or not, this is spam - it puts mail servers under unnecessary load and a mailbox, somewhere, is probably storing these emails.

Jack Latrobe
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Some of the sampcop advisories are here :

https://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/298.html

https://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/405.html

Amol
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