Re: [mailop] So, Sendgrid / Zoom, planning on actually doing anything about webinar spams?

2022-07-22 Thread Laura Atkins via mailop
>>> The basic problem is allowing an ESP customer to import a list that >>> existed before the customer became a customer of this ESP. I can't >>> think of an ESP that would not allow that. >> >> I saw this again as someone replied to it. >> >> Sadly, there is at least one legitimate reasons to

Re: [mailop] So, Sendgrid / Zoom, planning on actually doing anything about webinar spams?

2022-07-22 Thread Hans-Martin Mosner via mailop
Am 22. Juli 2022 11:34:16 schrieb Laura Atkins via mailop : ESPs have many, many problems, but the fixes being suggested here on mailop are overly simplistic and evidence a lack of conceptual understanding of how bulk email is sent in 2022. Suggested technical fixes are certainly too simpl

Re: [mailop] So, Sendgrid / Zoom, planning on actually doing anything about webinar spams?

2022-07-22 Thread Slavko via mailop
Ahoj, Dňa Fri, 22 Jul 2022 10:21:44 +0100 Laura Atkins via mailop napísal: > ESPs have many, many problems, but the fixes being suggested here on > mailop are overly simplistic and evidence a lack of conceptual > understanding of how bulk email is sent in 2022. Sure, complex things has complex

Re: [mailop] So, Sendgrid / Zoom, planning on actually doing anything about webinar spams?

2022-07-22 Thread Laura Atkins via mailop
> On 22 Jul 2022, at 11:13, Slavko via mailop wrote: > > Ahoj, > > Dňa Fri, 22 Jul 2022 10:21:44 +0100 Laura Atkins via mailop > napísal: > >> ESPs have many, many problems, but the fixes being suggested here on >> mailop are overly simplistic and evidence a lack of conceptual >> understandi

Re: [mailop] So, Sendgrid / Zoom, planning on actually doing anything about webinar spams?

2022-07-22 Thread Simon Arlott via mailop
On 22/07/2022 10:21, Laura Atkins via mailop wrote: >> After that there should be an integrated opt-in process to verify any >> new email address for that ESP customer's list. > > While this sounds simple and like a no-brainer, it doesn’t account for how > complex many companies email programs ar

Re: [mailop] So, Sendgrid / Zoom, planning on actually doing anything about webinar spams?

2022-07-22 Thread Laura Atkins via mailop
> On 22 Jul 2022, at 12:22, Simon Arlott via mailop wrote: > > On 22/07/2022 10:21, Laura Atkins via mailop wrote: >>> After that there should be an integrated opt-in process to verify any >>> new email address for that ESP customer's list. >> >> While this sounds simple and like a no-brainer,

Re: [mailop] So, Sendgrid / Zoom, planning on actually doing anything about webinar spams?

2022-07-22 Thread Florian.Kunkel--- via mailop
Hi Laura, *! / The ESPs are interested in sender reputation. But, in this context, reputation means “Our mail gets accepted at the ISPs”. In that context their reputation is fine. They’re not being blocked. Specific customers may have delivery problems, but a lot of the modern machine learning

Re: [mailop] So, Sendgrid / Zoom, planning on actually doing anything about webinar spams?

2022-07-22 Thread Luis E . Muñoz via mailop
On 22 Jul 2022, at 6:31, Laura Atkins via mailop wrote: > I’m agreeing there is a problem with ESPs and have said so to ESPs > individually and as a group over the last few weeks. Something that I don't see mentioned often enough and that would help, is to retain records of bounces—even of hash

Re: [mailop] So, Sendgrid / Zoom, planning on actually doing anything about webinar spams?

2022-07-22 Thread Laura Atkins via mailop
> On 22 Jul 2022, at 16:02, Luis E. Muñoz via mailop wrote: > > On 22 Jul 2022, at 6:31, Laura Atkins via mailop wrote: > >> I’m agreeing there is a problem with ESPs and have said so to ESPs >> individually and as a group over the last few weeks. > > Something that I don't see mentioned oft

Re: [mailop] So, Sendgrid / Zoom, planning on actually doing anything about webinar spams?

2022-07-22 Thread Slavko via mailop
Dňa 22. júla 2022 15:49:08 UTC používateľ Laura Atkins via mailop napísal: >In many, many cases the issue is that other customers are mailing to the same >address - and just because an address bounces for X sender doesn’t mean that >it shouldn’t be mailed for Y sender. One clear example is whe

Re: [mailop] So, Sendgrid / Zoom, planning on actually doing anything about webinar spams?

2022-07-22 Thread Luis E . Muñoz via mailop
On 22 Jul 2022, at 11:49, Laura Atkins via mailop wrote: >> This would allow the ESP to quickly "fail" the API request to send to that >> email address. There are other metrics that could be tied into those >> addresses and used to provide a more expedite response to the caller, which >> incide

Re: [mailop] So, Sendgrid / Zoom, planning on actually doing anything about webinar spams?

2022-07-22 Thread Robert L Mathews via mailop
On 7/22/22 8:49 AM, Laura Atkins via mailop wrote: That’s normal practice as far as I’m aware. If an address bounces the ESP prevents the sender from mailing to it in the future. There are some ESPs that don’t (and they know how I feel about their practices). I’ve also heard complaints from ISP

Re: [mailop] So, Sendgrid / Zoom, planning on actually doing anything about webinar spams?

2022-07-22 Thread Brie via mailop
On 7/22/22 4:31 AM, Laura Atkins via mailop wrote: I’ll point out, this isn’t an ESP only problem. Two of the biggest sources of spam right now are O365 and Google IP addresses. They are actually a bigger problem in my (mostly unfiltered for reasons) inbox than any ESP. That is an unders

Re: [mailop] So, Sendgrid / Zoom, planning on actually doing anything about webinar spams?

2022-07-22 Thread Atro Tossavainen via mailop
Lem said: > I question your assertion that "bounces for X sender doesn’t mean that it > shouldn’t be mailed for Y sender". Indeed if, say, an address doesn't exist, it doesn't exist whether the sender is X or Y. Also, if the mail platform rejects mail from the sender's IPs or domains, it will p

Re: [mailop] So, Sendgrid / Zoom, planning on actually doing anything about webinar spams?

2022-07-22 Thread Atro Tossavainen via mailop
> I got none of it, and nobody could figure out why for a while. It > finally turned out that the ESP had added our entire domain name to > some sort of global blocklist they have, solely based on my > complaints that the ESP was letting their customers repeatedly send > spam to our role addresses

Re: [mailop] So, Sendgrid / Zoom, planning on actually doing anything about webinar spams?

2022-07-22 Thread Brie via mailop
On 7/22/22 10:57 AM, Robert L Mathews via mailop wrote: I have an bad example of this. My company opened a thousands-of-dollars-a-year account with a large company, and apparently this company does all their transactional mailing through a certain well-known ESP. I got none of it, and nobody

Re: [mailop] So, Sendgrid / Zoom, planning on actually doing anything about webinar spams?

2022-07-22 Thread Luis E . Muñoz via mailop
On 22 Jul 2022, at 13:10, Atro Tossavainen via mailop wrote: [✄ but thoroughly read] > Becoming a data controller entails needing a legitimate basis for > processing the personal data of the customer's customers, with whom > the ESP does not have any kind of a direct business relationship so > it

Re: [mailop] So, Sendgrid / Zoom, planning on actually doing anything about webinar spams?

2022-07-22 Thread Hans-Martin Mosner via mailop
22. Juli 2022 22:20, "Luis E. Muñoz via mailop" schrieb: > Going back to the example of an ESP, does the hash of the email address > equate the email address as > per GDPR? This probably reaches well into the area of legal expertise and may therefore be off-topic here, but it would be very int

Re: [mailop] So, Sendgrid / Zoom, planning on actually doing anything about webinar spams?

2022-07-22 Thread Atro Tossavainen via mailop
Hans-Martin Mosner wrote: > Especially in the area of freemailer spam (and somewhat ESP spam, of course), > hashes of spammy mail senders could be used to share reputation among mailops > without handling actual e-mail addresses. Er, I think you mean https://msbl.org/ebl.html which was presen

Re: [mailop] So, Sendgrid / Zoom, planning on actually doing anything about webinar spams?

2022-07-22 Thread Carl Byington via mailop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Wed, 2022-07-20 at 12:41 -0600, Brie via mailop wrote: > It's still going on even though it was 'being looked into'. Fixed here by blacklisting the DKIM signature from zoom.us -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iHMEAREKADMWIQSuFMepaSkjWnTxQ5QvqPuaK

Re: [mailop] So, Sendgrid / Zoom, planning on actually doing anything about webinar spams?

2022-07-22 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
On 2022-07-22 at 12:45:18 UTC-0400 (Fri, 22 Jul 2022 12:45:18 -0400) Luis E. Muñoz via mailop is rumored to have said: On 22 Jul 2022, at 11:49, Laura Atkins via mailop wrote: This would allow the ESP to quickly "fail" the API request to send to that email address. There are other metrics tha

Re: [mailop] So, Sendgrid / Zoom, planning on actually doing anything about webinar spams?

2022-07-22 Thread Hans-Martin Mosner via mailop
23. Juli 2022 00:54, "Atro Tossavainen via mailop" schrieb: > Er, I think you mean > > https://msbl.org/ebl.html Yeah, basically that, except that i'm thinking of a somewhat wider scope by also covering compromised mailboxes, which gets closer to the PII danger zone as those woould belong to

Re: [mailop] So, Sendgrid / Zoom, planning on actually doing anything about webinar spams?

2022-07-22 Thread Dan Mahoney via mailop
> On Jul 23, 2022, at 01:14, Hans-Martin Mosner via mailop > wrote: > > 23. Juli 2022 00:54, "Atro Tossavainen via mailop" > schrieb: > >> Er, I think you mean >> >> https://msbl.org/ebl.html > > Yeah, basically that, except that i'm thinking of a somewhat wider scope by > also covering