Questions about Spamhaus ZEN

My YunoHost server

Hardware: computer at home
YunoHost version: 11.0.10.2 (stable)
I have access to my server : Through SSH | through the webadmin
Are you in a special context or did you perform some particular tweaking on your YunoHost instance ? : server behind a VPN

Description of my issue

Hello everyone!

I receive almost daily emails from the diagnostic with the following message:

[ERROR] Your IP or domain X.X.X.X is blacklisted on Spamhaus ZEN
  - The blacklist reason is: "Error: open resolver; https://www.spamhaus.org/returnc/pub/172.71.249.6"
  - After identifying why you are listed and fixing it, feel free to ask for your IP or domain to be removed on https://www.spamhaus.org/zen/

I specify that 172.71.249.6 ≠ X.X.X.X (my IP) and that X.X.X.X is not on the block list of Spamhaus ZEN.
Every day the IP specified at the end of the Spamhaus ZEN URL is different, here are some more examples:

list of other URLs
https://www.spamhaus.org/returnc/pub/162.158.85.155
https://www.spamhaus.org/returnc/pub/172.70.245.39
https://www.spamhaus.org/returnc/pub/172.70.241.8
https://www.spamhaus.org/returnc/pub/162.158.85.214
https://www.spamhaus.org/returnc/pub/172.70.245.125
https://www.spamhaus.org/returnc/pub/162.158.85.82
https://www.spamhaus.org/returnc/pub/2400:cb00:71:1024::a29e:5552
https://www.spamhaus.org/returnc/pub/2400:cb00:472:1024::ac46:f9d2

And I have many many more

After some research, it seems that the link to which the Spamhaus ZEN URL refers is not intended for me but for some senders who try to send me an email. Indeed, a sender whose email I never received told me that he received the following email:

This is the mail system at host smtp1-g21.free.fr.
>
> I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
> be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.
>
> For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster.
>
> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
> delete your own text from the attached returned message.
>
> The mail system
>
> <[myynohostemailaddress](mailto:myynohostemailaddress)>: host mydomain[X.X.X.X] said: 554 5.7.1 Service
> unavailable; Client host [212.27.42.1] blocked using cbl.abuseat.org;
> Error: open resolver;
https://www.spamhaus.org/returnc/pub/2400:cb00:472:1024::ac46:f961 (in
>    reply to RCPT TO command)
> <Delivery report>
> <Undelivered Message>

So I understand that some emails sent to me get blocked by Samphaus ZEN and rejected before they even reach my inbox or spam folder.

So I have several questions:

  • how to know which email addresses are affected
  • how to set an exception for some e-mail / domains

And several remarks:

  • it would be great to have one day this report and the actions mentioned above directly in the webadmin
  • how to stop receiving emails from the diagnostic on this subject, my IP is not actually on the blocked list, it is those of some of my contacts (choosing ignore in the webadmin is not enough; I guess because the message changes URL every day)

Thanks in advance for your answers !

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