Maintenance usually requires some sort of trigger.  A FP or FN, for example.

NOTE: I'm using the dev list not users but moderated your email
through.  You might want to subscribe to the dev@ list.

On 2/1/2019 8:40 AM, Eric Veldhuyzen wrote:
> Hello Kevin,
>
> I should have send the email from my other email address (this one).
> That one *IS* subscribed to the users mailing list. Sorry for that.
>
> XS4ALL does also not give out free email addresses but it is an ISP
> that gives out paid addresses. I'm one of the email admins there and I
> was testing DKIM on my own private domain before we start testing on
> the xs4all.nl and xs4all.net domains.
>
> The article I mentioned also mentions the domains Wanadoo.co.uk and
> Freeserve.co.uk that have stopped their service of providing Free
> emails, and those two are also still on the FREEMAIL list. So that is
> why I was wondering if the list was actually maintained.
>
> Thanks for replying and forwarding of my mail.
>
> Eric Veldhuyzen
>
> Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
>> You need to subscribe to the list to post but I'm replying and cc'ing
>> dev@ so it
>> can get some TLC.
>>
>> Yes, it's maintained.  If Xs4all doesn't give out free email
>> addresses, then it
>> likely does need to get removed.  And thanks for the feedback on terra!
>>
>> Hope you are well, nice to see you posting!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> KAM
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject:     Freemail?
>> Date:     Fri, 1 Feb 2019 13:54:59 +0100
>> From:     Eric Veldhuyzen <er...@xs4all.net>
>> Reply-To:     er...@xs4all.net
>> Organization:     XS4ALL
>> To:     us...@spamassassin.apache.org
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was just testing my renewed SPF/DKIM/DMARC setup through some DKIM
>> testing
>> remailers when I noticed that my domain is on this FREEMAIL_FROM list.
>>
>> Now I know that I'm never sending out any spam and the default score
>> for this
>> rule isn't that high. And since all the mails that are coming from my
>> (personal)
>> domain are SFP aligned and DKIM signed and thus should also pass any
>> DMARC check
>> (policy reject) with flying colors, the risc of my mails actually
>> getting marked
>> as spam isn't very high.
>>
>> It did however made me wonder if anyone is actually really
>> maintaining that
>> list. Because just including terra.* as all being FREEMAIL is VERY
>> general. And
>> the real freemailer 'Terra Mail' closed down quite some time ago:
>> https://www.mailjet.com/blog/news/terra-mail-closure/
>>
>> Eric Veldhuyzen
>>
>

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