d your spam problem
that probably isn't even your problem. Goodbye!
Jayson
On 3/18/2024 8:54 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Jayson Smith writes:
> What I mean is that I'd love to find a good, reliable smarthost I
> can direct my SMTP server on my VPS to use.
You co
arded.
Thanks for any thoughts,
Jayson
On 3/16/2024 5:26 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Jayson Smith writes:
> I'm getting really tired of these unexplained blacklistings. Does
> anyone know of any reliable outgoing Email service providers?
What do you mean by that? Gmail for ex
Hi,
I run two very low traffic Mailman lists on my Linode. This morning one
of them got an Email, and that's when I found out thanks to Comcast that
my IP is on Cloudmark's blacklist. Naturally I've sent in a reset
request using the form linked from the Comcast error message, and am
still wa
Hi,
Update: Sometime in the night, my IP was silently removed from
Microsoft's block list. I've never had that happen, but all's well that
ends well, at least for now.
Jayson
On 3/11/2024 10:18 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 3/11/24 6:28 PM, Jayson Smith wrote:
Hi,
So it'
Hi,
So it's happened again and I have no idea why, though I suspect some of
my IP neighbors may have been put on Microsoft's naughty list as my
subnet with Linode was recently listed on Uceprotect level 2. Anyway, I
go to send an Email to an Outlook user, and get the typical thing,
Unfortuna
Hi,
Yesterday I received a report from an AOL user that she's not receiving
traffic from one of my lists. The problem here is that my server logs
show outgoing mail being accepted by AOL's incoming mail servers, and of
course after that it's anyone's guess what happens to them. She says
she's
Hi,
I run a Mailman 2 list for an organization of writers with disabilities.
Recently our president has become concerned that some people wanting to
join the group may not be responding to the standard Mailman
subscription confirmation message because, from the From: line and the
subject lin
arted
out of the blue on March 24. If it makes any difference, the specific
subscriber involved has an Email address at msn.com, and she's been
subscribed to the list for close to two years with no problem.
Jayson
On 4/15/2022 1:25 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Jayson Smith writes:
>
Hi,
Last week I wrote this list about a situation where I'd received an
Email from st...@hotmail.com with the subject, "complaint about message
from MYI.PAD.DRE.SS." Then later I received a second such message,
identified both complainants as the same person, let her know she'd be
put on No
Hi,
To answer your main question, everything is on one Linode VPS, there's
no networking or separate servers/hosts involved, everything's on one box.
Jayson
On 4/10/2022 4:41 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Jayson Smith writes:
> I've recently been playing with the
Hi,
I've recently been playing with the OpenARC milter for Sendmail. I have
it running, and it seems to be working properly, except for one thing.
When a message is sent to one of my Mailman 2 lists, OpenARC adds an ARC
set to the incoming message before it ever hits Mailman. Then the
messag
Hi,
I run a relatively low traffic Email list on my VPS at Linode. Twice
within the last two weeks, I've received an Email from st...@hotmail.com
with the subject "Complaint about message from XX.XX.XX.XX" where
XX.XX.XX.XX is my IP. I'm signed up for Microsoft's Junkmail Reporting
Program,
Hi,
Last evening I received an Email from "Hotmail deliverability support"
indicating they'd implemented mitigation for my IP, and that it could
take up to twenty-four hours for it to propagate through their systems.
When this has happened before, it has never taken anywhere near that
long f
Hi,
I just received Microsoft's response to my deliverability support
request. Mitigated? Nope. Not qualified for mitigation? Nope again.
Their resolution states:
We were unable to identify anything on our side that would prevent your
mail from reaching Outlook.com customers.
I sent a t
Hi,
Just over two weeks since I found myself on Microsoft's blocklist and
was manually removed, I find myself back on their blocklist again.
Possibly coincidentally, this morning MXToolbox informed me that Linode
has apparently found itself back on Uceprotectl3. Does anyone know if
Microsoft
lying. In particular, several years ago when my lists were set up
to do that, Thunderbird users were having problems sometimes replying
to the sender of a message rather than the entire list.
Jayson
On 11/28/2021 11:45 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 11/28/21 7:58 PM, Jayson Smith wrote:
Hi,
One of m
Jayson
On 11/28/2021 11:45 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 11/28/21 7:58 PM, Jayson Smith wrote:
Hi,
One of my Mailman lists has a single member at Charter which has
occasionally bounced mail over the last few days. When this happens,
the reason given, when I look it up on their help page, ind
Hi,
One of my Mailman lists has a single member at Charter which has
occasionally bounced mail over the last few days. When this happens, the
reason given, when I look it up on their help page, indicates the
message I sent goes against the security policies of my domain, and I
should contact
Hi,
Here's the situation, MM 2.1.26.
Last night I received an Email from a list member. She's trying to
change her Email address, and isn't receiving the confirmation request
message at her new address. At that point I didn't know her new address
so couldn't check logs. I told her to try su
6/15/2021 1:24 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Jayson Smith writes:
> I'm having trouble with one of my lists. CenturyTel is bouncing mail
> from one specific AOL user. The Mailman munge from is working as
> expected, and I even tried configuring mm_cfg.py to strip inco
Hi,
I'm having trouble with one of my lists. CenturyTel is bouncing mail
from one specific AOL user. The Mailman munge from is working as
expected, and I even tried configuring mm_cfg.py to strip incoming DKIM
signatures. However, as you'll see, CenturyTel is still complaining of a
bad DKIM
Hi again,
Last night I posted a message about Mailman and/or Sendmail failing to
deliver Emails to a particular address with an upper case first letter.
Two of you pointed out that the mail was probably stuck in Sendmail's
outgoing queue, and if it wasn't, the Sendmail logs would show what
h
Hi,
I have a strange one here. Earlier this evening I received a report that
one particular subscriber wasn't receiving messages from one of my
lists. I knew I wasn't getting any bounce notices, so I decided to look
at the server logs. I saw messages being received from him when he sent
mail
Hi,
Great news! Not forty-eight hours after my first Email, my IP is
unblocked! Then a few hours later I received an Email from the AT&T
Postmaster saying my IP will be removed from their RBL within 24 hours
of this letter. Go figure.
On another note, I use MXToolbox to monitor my IP's RBL
Hi,
I know there was a thread on this a few weeks ago, but I deleted those
messages. My server has found itself, for no apparent reason, on AT&T's
RBL. I've already written to abuse_...@abuse-att.net as suggested in the
error message. I assume the upshot of the earlier thread was that all I
Hi,
I run a list for members of an organization. Recently I was asked by a
member if the archives had a search function. With MM2 they don't, I
know. This is a private list, so I don't want it publicly searchable.
Does anyone know of a web application that can be deployed on a Linux
server w
Hi,
Recently I've started receiving spam at the mail...@mysite.net address.
I've been manually discarding such mail from the Mailman moderation
queue, but I'm wondering if there's any legitimate reason to allow any
incoming mail to that address in the first place? If not, I could almost
cert
Hi,
I've seen this exact error before with various ISPs. I believe one of
them is Centurytel. I assume what's happened is that several ISPs use a
certain spam filtering service or app, and that filter is rejecting the
messages for some unknown reason. If that's the case, the particular ISP
in
Hi,
If the notification was sent at 9:00 AM server time, it probably means
the subscriber was bouncing Email (changed their Email address and
didn't update their list subscription, their mail server thinks your
messages are spam, etc.) and didn't respond to multiple "Your mail is
bouncing, cl
On
Behalf Of Jayson Smith
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 10:04 AM
To: mailman-users@python.org
Subject: [Mailman-Users] Totally disable list subscriptions?
Hi,
For years I ran a Mailman list on my own server, until it obviously
became too much of a load for certain ISPs to think I w
Hi,
For years I ran a Mailman list on my own server, until it obviously
became too much of a load for certain ISPs to think I was sending
legitimate Email. The final straw was when Microsoft blacklisted my IP
from sending to all of their Email services (Hotmail, live.com, Outlook,
etc.). I d
Hi,
The problem I'm familiar with is messages *from* AOL/Hotmail/Yahoo/etc.
being rejected by other Email providers. I haven't done it in years so
I'm not sure where it is, but there's an option in the list config to
munge the From: lines of messages where Mailman detects this will be an
issu
Hi,
I run a few Mailman lists, and yesterday evening I started having
trouble sending Email to Roadrunner customers. I figured it was a
temporary failure of some kind, until this morning when I received the
same bounces. Whenever Sendmail connects to a Roadrunner Email server,
it immediately
Hi,
I've been using .forward to forward Email from some user mailboxes to
other addresses. Normally this works just fine, but a few weeks ago a
situation happened which demonstrates how it can be an epic fail. I had
a Mailman/DNS problem after upgrading a lot of packages. A message came
in,
Hi,
That did the trick, thanks!
Jayson
On 11/14/2018 6:09 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 11/14/18 2:35 PM, Jayson Smith wrote:
Hi,
The error in /var/lib/mailman/log/error is as follows:
Nov 14 10:24:29 2018 (1063) DNS lookup for dmarc_moderation_action for
list (Redacted) not available
That
ion I wanted. Do I
need to recompile and reinstall?
Thanks,
Jayson
On 11/14/2018 5:25 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 11/14/18 11:53 AM, Jayson Smith wrote:
Did my server fail to retrieve the DMARC information for AOL for some
transient reason, or could there be another problem? I have double
checked
Hi all,
I have a weird one. This morning an AOL user posted to one of my lists.
Normally this is no problem, since I have the list in question set to
munge the From: of messages from problematic domains (AOL, Yahoo, etc).
For some reason it didn't work this time. Naturally, I received bounce
Hi,
I've learned this lesson the hard way. Back in early 2011 I signed up
with a company called Serverpronto where I could get my own dedicated
server. Their terms of service were very clear on the fact that they
have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to spammers, and all the
horrible thi
Hi,
Unfortunately, yes, I have seen this behavior from Microsoft. I have no
idea what triggers it, but my Linode IP has been blocklisted twice, once
a bit over three years ago, and another time less than two weeks ago.
If you haven't already, try signing up for their Smart Network Data
Servi
Hi,
I run a mailing list where posters are supposed to put their Email
address somewhere in their message to make private replies easier, but
some don't, even after being reminded privately. A year or two ago I
investigated putting the sender's Email address in the footer, but when
I checked
Hi again,
This was not a monthly password reminder. It specifically said that
"You—or someone posing as you—has requested" this password reminder.
Jayson
On 8/6/2018 5:52 AM, mailman-admin wrote:
Hello
Am 06.08.2018 um 10:22 schrieb Jayson Smith:
Last night at 11:15 or so, I
Hi,
Last night at 11:15 or so, I received a password reminder from
Mailman-users, with my correct password. Only problem is, I never
requested such a reminder. Did anyone else get one, was someone testing
something with a random sample of subscribers, or was I targeted (not
realizing that th
Hi,
I'm currently using 2.1.26. Recently I had LetsEncrypt add lines to my
Apache configuration to redirect browsers from HTTP to HTTPS URLs. This
morning I found that this doesn't seem to work well with Mailman
database admin pages, I couldn't get Mailman to reject a held message
until I co
Hi,
Both of these approaches seem to be specific to Postfix if I'm not
mistaken. There's a similar milter for Sendmail called Mailman-Milter
which I was using for a while. However, it worked based on Mailman's
action E.G. it would use a Python script to determine what Mailman would
do with a
05/06/2018 07:16 PM, Jayson Smith wrote:
ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI
Require all granted
This looks correct.
The problem is that the CGI isn't working. If I go to
http://temphostname/mailman/listinfo/mailman for exam
Hi,
This is a weird one. I think of myself as knowing my way around Mailman
pretty well for a user/admin/installer/upgrader. I'm upgrading to a
Debian 9 system from CentOS 6.5. Debian's Apache configs took a bit of
getting used to, but I actually like them better. It uses Apache 2.4.2.
I wa
DKIM record which I've recreated. We'll see if that resolves anything.
Thanks for your pointers.
Jayson
On 3/22/2018 2:48 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 03/22/2018 11:14 AM, Jayson Smith wrote:
FYI the host in question is bluegrasspals.com. It does have an A record,
and its ip has proper r
FYI the host in question is bluegrasspals.com. It does have an A record,
and its ip has proper reverse nslookup back to the domain. My host
supports IPV6 but I'm not using it for mail.
Jayson
On 3/22/2018 1:41 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 03/22/2018 07:10 AM, Jayson Smith wrote:
<<&
Hi,
Lately I've been getting some bounced mail from people at the
provider/server plus.com. I've redacted addresses, but this is the error
message:
<<< 550 #5.1.8 Domain of sender address
does not exist
554 5.0.0 Service unavailable
Obviously, the sending domain *does* exist, so I assum
Hi,
I'm in the design stages of creating a script for my own use. This
script will send a predetermined Email to a predetermined mailing list.
I want it to be set up so anyone receiving this message can just hit
Reply and reach the list owner address, listname-owner@domain. Is there
any prob
Hi,
I have a weird situation I'm sure others have had, and I'm wondering if
there's any way in Mailman 2 to deal with it. I have three subscribers
to one of my lists who are on ISP's who do spam filtering at the SMTP
level, rejecting with a 554 any message they don't like. And as so often
ha
Hi,
A while back, I was getting irregular AOL bounces. By that, I mean some
messages would go through just fine, and some would bounce with the
error "AOL will not accept delivery of this message." Very unhelpful, as
you can see. Furthermore, if a message bounced, it was probably always
going
Hello,
This bounce message clearly indicates that your IP address doesn't have
a reverse DNS entry. This is a standard lookup done as a part of spam
fighting efforts. You need to get your provider to set the reverse DNS
for your IP address to the domain name of your mail server if possible.
Hi,
Just my $0.02 worth, but as a blind person, were I going to implement a
CAPTCHA, I would probably write some sort of simple math problem system
or something. Besides the benefit of not needing registration, this
CAPTCHA can be solved by anybody who can solve simple problems.
ReCaptcha has
our server's IP
address has somehow received a bad reputation, and certain mail servers
will reject all mail from your server, regardless of sender, recipient,
or content.
Jayson
On 12/13/2015 7:42 AM, Hal wrote:
On 13/12/2015 13:05, Jayson Smith wrote:
Hi,
Unfortunately, disabling
Hi,
Unfortunately, disabling automatic removal from the list will only fix
one effect of the problem, not the problem itself. There's something
going on which is causing mail to those addresses to bounce. If you are
receiving messages with the subject of "Bounce action notification"
these wil
Hi,
I'd say the domain does need to be fixed first. I recently encountered a
mail server (not AOL) which refused to accept mail from my domain
because I didn't have an MX record.
As far as I can tell, it is not the individual AOL users who need to
request whitelisting, but rather, the server
Hi,
I was having this happen, but in my case there was a very easy way to
get rid of it. Whoever set up that spam mailing list made a very big
mistake. They chose to send their spam to the owner address *and* the
address for posting to the list! Normally there is absolutely no valid
reason fo
Hi,
I've also been looking for a variable giving the sender's Email address,
but came to the same conclusion--it doesn't exist. Imho this would be a
useful feature.
I admin a mailing list where I had to set it up to munge the From:
header because of DMARC, and some Email clients--even though
Hello,
I've been running several Mailman lists for the past ten years or so.
Unfortunately, in recent months some list addresses have fallen into the
hands of spammers, which is a real headache. Even worse, one particular
-owner address is receiving nothing but spam, and I don't assume there's
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