Re: [mailop] mediacombb.net rejecting all messages

2024-11-07 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
They are MX'd to Cloudfilter, which is part of Cloudmark, so that might give you another avenue to look for a connection to discuss. https://www.wombatmail.com/dni.cgi?d=mediacombb.net Cheers, Al Iverson On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 7:50 AM Anna Kotlikov via mailop wrote: > > I've explored every aven

Re: [mailop] SPF macro fragility (was: Re: SPF alignment when sending from G Suite)

2024-10-15 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
I'm not really seeing any obvious problems with SPF macros at mailbox providers. It's more that various testing/validation tools haven't been fully built out to use a proper SPF library or have full support for anything beyond the most simple SPF configuration. Maybe others will have evidence to s

Re: [mailop] DKIM: Who's using the x tag?

2024-10-10 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 12:48 PM Mark E. Mallett via mailop wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 05:47:43PM -0500, Al Iverson via mailop wrote: > > I love the idea of the X tag with DKIM to set an expiration date after > > which the signature should no longer be considered valid.

Re: [mailop] DKIM: Who's using the x tag?

2024-10-10 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Thanks, all. My answer to the question of why: To make it slightly harder for bad guys to pick up and DKIM replay older messages. Putting a timer on that signature is like leaving the milk out of the fridge after opening it. Cheers, Al Iverson -- Al Iverson // 312-725-0130 // Chicago http://

[mailop] DKIM: Who's using the x tag?

2024-10-09 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
I love the idea of the X tag with DKIM to set an expiration date after which the signature should no longer be considered valid. (As described here, and many other places: https://xnnd.com/dqio ). But who actually has implemented this, if anyone? Are you aware of any ISPs, ESPs, automation platform

Re: [mailop] SPF alignment when sending from G Suite

2024-10-09 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
nthony Mitchell wrote: > > To my knowledge, it is not possible > > ________ > From: mailop on behalf of Al Iverson via mailop > > Sent: Wednesday, October 9, 2024 8:55:05 pm > To: mailop > Subject: [mailop] SPF alignment when sending from G Sui

[mailop] SPF alignment when sending from G Suite

2024-10-09 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Hey all, After configuring email alias domains on Google Workspace/G Suite, and then when sending from an alias domain, I note that while DKIM authentication works and is aligned to the from domain, that SPF authentication does not align; Google always uses the primary domain in the return-path, l

Re: [mailop] TALOS and newly created domains

2024-09-25 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Too new. Let the domain age. Don't focus on reverse engineering the error or looking for a special exception. Everybody thinks they deserve one, but that doesn't scale. You're making a postmaster's day better if you don't ask them for a favor. Regards, Al Iverson -- Al Iverson // 312-725-0130

Re: [mailop] Ask for commercial smtp gateway

2024-09-21 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
My volume's about the same as Corey's. Maybe a hair lower. My ISP renumbered my MTA a few months ago so I moved my outbound to Amazon SES to avoid the pain of lost sender reputation. (I blogged about that here: https://xnnd.com/ct6y ) It works, but it took a bit of getting used to. They do rewrit

Re: [mailop] [EXTERNAL] IRS DKIM signing L=

2024-09-18 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Thanks for doing that, Mark! At least it's not L=0 or L=1... Cheers, Al Iverson On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 6:05 PM Mark Alley via mailop wrote: > > Nice. Thanks for that. > > I also reported it to their Vuln program just to cover bases (even though it > will probably be rejected), so hopefully so

Re: [mailop] query for black listed domains

2024-09-08 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
I use https://hetrixtools.com/ Cheers, Al Iverson On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 7:41 AM Benny Pedersen via mailop wrote: > > > On 8. september 2024 14.09.51 Corey H via mailop > >> https://blacklistalert.org/ > > Only ipv4 and domain name, reload fails if client ip is ipv6 > > > >

Re: [mailop] [E] Yahoo 'temporarily' deferred

2024-08-14 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Does the Yahoo FBL work/have value even for the tiniest of senders? Yes, sign up for it. It helped me catch somebody entering garbage into my email newsletter signup form a week or two ago. A random complaint or two is quite unexpected for me, and it turned out that I had accidentally forgotten to

Re: [mailop] Validity Spam, But Also Validity Certified Safe?

2024-08-14 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
First thing I would want to make sure of is whether or not the RPBL listing is just a public query response and not an actual reputation indicator for the IP. Validity has undertaken effort over the past year or two to restrict unfettered public access to their DNS-based query mechanisms, in the sa

Re: [mailop] (Mis)use of DKIM's length tag and it's impact on DMARC and BIMI

2024-08-09 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
On Fri, Aug 9, 2024 at 5:03 AM Richard Hector via mailop wrote: > Sorry for the resurrection of an old thread. > > I recently set up DKIM, partly using https://wiki.debian.org/opendkim as > my reference. That seems to suggest using l=, so that's what I did ... > > If it's not good advice, perhaps

Re: [mailop] Mailserver accepts ssl/tls only

2024-07-18 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
What does operational mean in the context of a mailing list like this? Operational in that an autodidact who has set up a particular MTA and is having unexpected errors could appropriately use this list as a place to ask for thoughts and feedback from others running the same platform. Not operati

Re: [mailop] Strange sending issues with GMX

2024-07-15 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Couple of questions... - Isn't this list meant for communication around active operational issues? - Is how GMX designed outbound filtering really an operational issue? Cheers, Al Iverson ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/

Re: [mailop] Cloud hosts for responsible mail servers?

2024-07-09 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
I also have run my own outbound Postfix MTA for years with no problems, but a couple weeks ago my ISP decided to renumber my server, so I lost 13 years of sender reputation history, boo. I can -- and probably will -- go back to warm that new IP up and use it for my dedicated MTA again, but for now

Re: [mailop] Amazon SES senders

2024-06-29 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
I'm currently testing using Amazon SES for my outbound list mail. Here's a few different return-path addresses from posts to a mailing list I host. 010f019064d51828-cebd1304-0d90-4bc4-9681-6c3133c15f62-000...@email.xnnd.com 010f0190649e24fd-3c217ff4-5c4b-4087-b2ec-4069ce5833da-000...@email.xnnd.com

Re: [mailop] How to respond to a subscription attack

2024-06-28 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
If you want to trust me with the person's email address, I'll pass it to a bunch of ESP deliverability/compliance people and ask them to unsub it en masse, if they can. Some will and it might help. We've done it before for others. Cheers, Al -- Al Iverson // 312-725-0130 // Chicago http://www.

Re: [mailop] Outlook JMRP IP Feedback not available

2024-06-27 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Indeed, SNDS dashboard results will be reactive based on seeing mail pass through their systems. No mail = no data. -Al On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 9:38 PM Scott Mutter via mailop wrote: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 8:15 PM Al Iverson > wrote: > >> Try jumping directly to the appropriate "view data"

Re: [mailop] Set profile picture from server side for Outlook (Standalone client)

2024-06-26 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
I'm not aware of any way to do this. Microsoft used to have a method to add sender logos for hosted email service domains. This was called Brand Cards. It's been dead for a few years, though. Cheers, Al Iverson On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 6:05 AM Sebastian Nielsen via mailop < mailop@mailop.org> wro

Re: [mailop] Outlook JMRP IP Feedback not available

2024-06-26 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Try jumping directly to the appropriate "view data" page in SNDS for this IP. How? Use my little jumper widget here: https://www.wombatmail.com/jump.cgi?d= Plug in the IP, and it will convert the IP to the right format for the SNDS URL. That'll help you bypass the browse/select screen. Of course, y

Re: [mailop] Spamhaus and Vultr

2024-05-12 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Even if this wasn't happening, you should still go sign up for DQS. Cheers, Al Iverson On Sun, May 12, 2024 at 10:49 AM Lyle Giese via mailop wrote: > > Based on reading Spamhaus's page(referenced below), they will slowly > block ALL Vultr ip address space from using the Spamhaus public > mirror

Re: [mailop] Someone at Google (GSuite) with a clue?

2024-05-10 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Aaron, I suggest doing three things. 1. Filling out the Gmail sender contact form (details: https://www.spamresource.com/2022/01/gmails-sender-contact-form-what-and-why.html ) 2. Share the example bounce message here. Maybe somebody will be able to provide some feedback on that. 3. Share aboutmy.em

Re: [mailop] Cannot send messages to Google Mail users

2024-04-24 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Is disabling IPv6 an option here? A prior poster suggested as such, but I don't know if that was just a general suggestion or if that's actually possible in O365 settings. But if you can yes, try sending outbound mail only via IPv4. A "well known secret" is that Gmail filters mail from IPv6 c

Re: [mailop] Outlook Asynchronous Bounces

2024-04-10 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
I'm seeing it as well. I've blogged about it here: https://www.spamresource.com/2024/04/microsoft-intermittent-storedrvdeliver.html Somebody theorized to me that it could be some sort of new "mailbox full" type error. But that doesn't seem to fit with what I'm seeing. Cheers, Al Iverson On Tue,

Re: [mailop] is warming IPs still necessary?

2024-03-28 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 11:19 PM Gerald Oskoboiny via mailop wrote: > > * Gerald Oskoboiny via mailop [2024-03-25 15:58-0700] > >We are planning to move the system that hosts our email > >discussion lists from its old home where it has been for > >decades to an EC2 instance on AWS. It does about

Re: [mailop] is warming IPs still necessary?

2024-03-26 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 12:40 PM Gerald Oskoboiny via mailop wrote: > > * Laura Atkins via mailop [2024-03-26 09:21+] > >> On 25 Mar 2024, at 22:58, Gerald Oskoboiny via mailop > >> wrote: > >> > >> We are planning to move the system that hosts our email > >> discussion lists from its old ho

Re: [mailop] is warming IPs still necessary?

2024-03-26 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
+1 to what Laura says. I run a couple of EC2-hosted mail servers but I smarthost their mail out through another server, because, if you can get Amazon to unblock port 25 for you, people are still probably going to reject your mail far and wide. The EC2 IP ranges are likely to be treated unkin

Re: [mailop] Anyone from Microsoft?

2024-03-06 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Mark, the path here is the normal contact channel for Microsoft OLC issues - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=614866&clcid - and requesting pre-emptive accommodation: More on that here: https://www.spamresource.com/2021/05/requesting-pre-emptive-accommodation.html That magic phrase tells them

Re: [mailop] One click unsubscribe in mailing list messages

2024-02-23 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 3:44 PM Mark Fletcher via mailop wrote: > > My question to you all is, do you think that the List-Unsubscribe=One-Click > header is supported well enough these days such that I can replace the > one-click unsub link in the message bodies with a link that requires > authe

Re: [mailop] Anybody having trouble with gmail not recognizing valid SPF records?

2024-02-15 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
I saw you've since cleaned up the SPF record a bit to remove the IPv6 a/mx entries. Did that fix it? If not, this might actually be worth submitting to them to point out that they may be parsing it wrong: https://support.google.com/mail/contact/gmail_bulk_sender_escalation Regards, Al Iverson On

Re: [mailop] Gmail blocking

2024-02-10 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
My suggestion is make sure you've got your ducks in a row then reach out to Google via the bulk sender form. 1. Implement DKIM and SPF. Must have both. Don't let clients send using any domain but a fully authenticated one. 2. Make sure you're not blindly sending, allowing to send, or forwarding spa

Re: [mailop] zen.spamhaus.org

2024-02-07 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Doesn't matter how small your server is, or isn't. Spamhaus blocks public queries, but does it a bit imperfectly, so it's the kind of thing where you can get away with it for a while, then something changes, and they find a new way to lock it down a bit better. Look at the response code. Sign up

Re: [mailop] Looking for feedback on the Certified Senders Alliance (CSA)

2024-02-06 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
I have worked with people from the CSA over the past few years, mostly on webinar training sessions, and they seem kind and seem to care about email. I also observed them ejecting a company from their organization for not following their rules. I can't really go into specifics on that one. I don't

Re: [mailop] DKIM signed with parent domain

2024-01-26 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
> Independent of this I wouldn’t use r...@hostname.example.org as a sender > address to external recipients. This doesn’t look professional, makes > replying to those emails impossible and in case hostname.example.org doesn’t > have a public IP address it might also increase the risk that those

Re: [mailop] Contact Google Postmaster

2024-01-26 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
How to contact Google to beg for Gmail spam folder forgiveness: https://www.spamresource.com/2022/01/gmails-sender-contact-form-what-and-why.html Cheers, Al Iverson On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 12:34 PM Scott Mutter via mailop wrote: > > It seems messages being sent from 173.225.104.91 are being deli

Re: [mailop] Malformed To: header

2023-12-30 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
> > recently i see messages from this ML rejected by my MTA, due > > malformed To: header (from postmas...@inter-corporate.com): > > > >To: mailop@mailop.org Unrelated to the question of whether or not @ merits escaping or quoting... I personally wouldn't put an email address in the "friendl

Re: [mailop] Gmail classifying message as spam based on the sending IP

2023-10-13 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Submit a sample message from the affected IP here: https://support.google.com/mail/contact/gmail_bulk_sender_escalation They rarely respond, but they do sometimes address issues based on submissions. Cheers, Al Iverson On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 7:25 AM Fernando MM via mailop wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm

Re: [mailop] New Gmail sender guidelines

2023-10-11 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
I've blogged about it here, if you're looking for a link to show people when they ask what to do: https://www.spamresource.com/2023/09/gmail-now-rejecting-unauthenticated-mail.html Cheers, Al Iverson -- Al Iverson / Deliverability blogging at https://www.spamresource.com Subscribe to the weekly

Re: [mailop] hotmail.com SPF forgot IPv6

2023-08-21 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Yeah, blocking on SPF -all is scary, really people shouldn't. But I'm guilty of implementing it that way myself, so who am I to talk? Maybe it's more that it's fine if you want to do it as a crazy hobbyist, but if you're one of the biggest mailbox providers on the earth...it's not a great idea. Th

Re: [mailop] Delivery Reports, requested by Microsoft 'Outlook' customer, reported as Spam by same Microsoft 'Outlook' customer?

2023-08-10 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Doesn't seem like a new problem, really. Any user can report spam on anything they want, and I'm not aware of any mechanism to suppress stupid reports from the sending side. On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 10:35 AM Benoit Panizzon via mailop wrote: > > Hi Team > > I would be very happy, if anymone at mic

Re: [mailop] Send emails over O365 to Google with a specific domain are rejected

2023-08-06 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Domain reputation blocks at Gmail are more common nowadays than in years past. Suggestions: Make sure all mail passes SPF and DKIM, especially DKIM. Has to be a DKIM signature for dnn.de, not the default "onmicrosoft.com" domain that O365 will use by default. Submit a request for reconsideration h

Re: [mailop] Guide for setting up a mail server ?

2023-07-10 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
I covered that here: https://www.spamresource.com/2020/07/small-mailserver-best-current-practices.html Anybody who would like to write up a guide, I'd be happy to publish it on Spam Resource (or link to it if you publish it elsewhere). Feel free to reach out. Cheers, Al Iverson -- Al Iverson /

Re: [mailop] greylisting

2023-06-25 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 3:33 AM ml+mailop--- via mailop wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 25, 2023, Carsten Schiefner via mailop wrote: > > > The question, however, is: will it ble..., erm, can one do without > > greylisting? > > It would mean more spam is coming through - so for my case greylisting > is not

Re: [mailop] SendGrid is deleting your mail

2023-06-23 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
What if we just got to the heart of the matter and admitted that greylisting is useless 2023? It was meant to annoy botnet spammers etc. who, once upon a time, did not have big iron and big disks to be able to queue and retry. That reality basically no longer exists. I tested greylisting myself thi

Re: [mailop] Port 25 Pingback?

2023-06-16 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 12:41 PM John Possidente via mailop wrote: > > A sender of legally mandated bulk mail who are very conscious of making sure > they're dotting every i and crossing every t (because they're required to) > asked me today whether port 25 pingback is still necessary. I immedia

Re: [mailop] When Will Outlook Rollout SRS for All of Their Email Servers? (For the sake of bimi)

2023-06-05 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
How long until Google, Yahoo, others stop accepting that forwarded mail from Microsoft, is another way to frame that. Good to see it getting some attention. I'll be curious to see who addresses it and how. Cheers, Al Iverson On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 3:01 PM Alex Liu via mailop wrote: > > Looks li

Re: [mailop] Forwarding mail originating from gmail via 3rd party to gmail

2023-05-17 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Try rewriting the message ID. I think Gmail is believing the message to be a duplicate and in some cases it will silently eat duplicates. I have a forwarding feature for my own domains that in addition to using SRS and re-signing DKIM with my domain, it rewrites the message ID. Good point about A

Re: [mailop] Any Postmasters or abuse team from Amazon AWS on here?

2023-05-09 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Seems like sending as yahoo.com from SES is going to have very poor deliverability given yahoo.com has a DMARC policy of reject. It'd be good to nudge Amazon to block certain domains, sure, but even if they don't, I don't see how somebody's going to have much spam success via that path. TL;DR who c

Re: [mailop] New to mass mailings

2023-05-07 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Here's my Microsoft Deliverability Guide, recently updated: https://www.spamresource.com/2023/04/isp-deliverability-guide-microsoft-olc.html The company I work for, we provide deliverability monitoring software and consulting services. Feel free to reach out if either interest you. Work email: al

Re: [mailop] How to address Microsoft if spaming Office365 customers cause collateral damage for other Office365 customers sharing the same IP?

2023-03-31 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
> On 3/30/23 07:37, Benoit Panizzon via mailop wrote: > > > What would be the best way to address such issues for Office365 > > customers? My recommendation is to recognize that 1-bit binary blocklistings aren't granular enough to account for shared environments without causing false positives. S

Re: [mailop] Tightening of delivery rules for Exchange Online

2023-03-28 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 11:44 AM Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: > > On 3/28/23 10:19 AM, Al Iverson via mailop wrote: > > Eventually we have to stop allowing connections from misconfigured > > servers that are being exploited to do bad things. > > But what is "misco

Re: [mailop] Tightening of delivery rules for Exchange Online

2023-03-28 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
> On Tue, 2023-03-28 at 17:04 +0200, Tobias Fiebig via mailop wrote: > > > > Are there any other thoughts on this? Eventually we have to stop allowing connections from misconfigured servers that are being exploited to do bad things. This seems like a good thing to help both reduce the exploitable

Re: [mailop] Hotmail will start rejecting messages that fail DMARC

2023-03-22 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
This is great to hear. Thanks very much for sharing! Cheers, Al Iverson On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 9:31 AM Jeff Dellapina via mailop wrote: > Hey Mailop, > > > > Microsoft is proud to announce our Consumer email service > (Outlook/Hotmail/MSN/Live) *will now honor the DMARC record of > “p=reject”

Re: [mailop] Gmail blocking of good customer

2023-02-26 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
> This appears to be a specially built MTA, and with the (probable) > consent of its users, has policy in place to not resend after 4xx under > specific conditions. I.e. the sending MTA is interpreting specific 4xx > responses (and more likely the text) to mean a permanent failure. > > I do not se

Re: [mailop] Cyren

2023-02-13 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
This is a good hypothesis but so far I have not seen any absolute confirmation that they are "listing the world." I guess we will see... Cheers, Al Iverson On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 2:53 AM Benoit Panizzon via mailop wrote: > > Hi All > > I have started seeing a lot of emails sent via one Swiss IS

Re: [mailop] DKIM record IONOS

2023-02-09 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
The DKIM public key is technically a TXT record. Some people do use a CNAME version, but then yeah, you put in the hostname of the real server (real DNS entry) that has the TXT entry. So in your case, you’re probably looking to paste that key value into the TXT record. Your selector is “k1” in t

Re: [mailop] Feedback Loops and Sub-Domains

2023-02-08 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Good advice from Luca. As far as reporting address, he’s saying, have an FBL-specific one that feeds into automation if possible. That being said, it can be ONE address for ALL domains/clients, if your automation can parse the messages to denote the client and recipient info. So you could set it

Re: [mailop] Forged Yahoo/Gmail etc. Senders - Recommendations for Blocking

2023-01-26 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
DMARC would have blocked that, for starters. Yahoo has a p=reject policy. If you want to get customized and aggressive it might be useful to manually build a list of known freemail addresses - or at least the top MAGY ones (Microsoft/Apple/Gmail/Yahoo) and reject them if they don't pass SPF. I hav

Re: [mailop] Using cloud hosts for MX (not SMTP)

2023-01-18 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Alberto, I do exactly as you are suggesting — I host inbound email on a Google Cloud instance (and I did so previously on an AWS EC2 instance). Neither allows port 25 outbound. I relay outbound SMTP through an existing VPS I’ve had at another ISP for years. It works fine. Cheers, Al Iverson >

Re: [mailop] gmail putting most messages into Spam

2023-01-17 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
A (wanted) notification from Google's Blogger service to me went to spam this morning, which is new and unique. But it talks about email auth, and spam, so I'm not 100% sure it's related. I'd love to see an example of this -- anybody affected, feel free to email me off list? This address (aiver...

Re: [mailop] Simple mailing list expander program for aliases files?

2023-01-11 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
I've been doing something similar for a good long time. Blogged about it here: https://www.spamresource.com/2015/12/mail-forwarding-in-dmarc-world.html The current version of my forwarding script rewrites the from address, disables the authentication headers (re-authenticating the message anew upon

Re: [mailop] Spamhaus DNS issues causing all incoming mail to drop for me

2022-11-04 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
I'm glad you were able to get it figured out. I'm using Spamhaus to block mail to my Postfix server via the DQS process and it's working perfectly. Cheers, Al Iverson On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 1:23 PM Brian Knight via mailop wrote: > > I've got a Postfix server (it's a flurdy build) that hasn't had

Re: [mailop] Recommendations for host with good IP reputation or use external SMTP?

2022-11-02 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
I mentioned this to Ian offline, but I'll mention it here, too. I would be happy to try relaying for small hobbyist senders; feel free to reach out if you're interested. (And if you asked before, but I demurred because I wasn't ready, now I think I'm ready.) I've got my own SMTP server handling 1:1

Re: [mailop] Only Yahoo deferring mail

2022-10-29 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Go submit a ticket here - https://senders.yahooinc.com/contact I assume there's a TS04 code in that error message. It is indeed likely due to user complaints, but they have something of a hair trigger for IPs not known to them. They ought to be able to get you sorted out. Assuming you have a limi

Re: [mailop] Bounce Address Tag Validation (BATV) versus Spam Filtering

2022-10-13 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
I don't know that non-matching return path/from are something you truly have to solve for. At the domain level, it's addressed by DMARC. At the exact email address level, any mailing list software, ESP or CRM tool that uses VERP to help with bounce processing is going to have a mismatched return-pa

Re: [mailop] Email Cloud Providers

2022-09-20 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
I'd look at Fastmail. That's where I'd go if I wanted to avoid Google, and if I didn't want to set up my own server. Cheers, Al On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 2:59 PM Michael Ellis via mailop wrote: > > Anyone have a suggestion for a good cloud email provider with good > deliverability and control ove

Re: [mailop] Discover bank billpay from NXDOMAIN

2022-09-18 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Abuse.net suggests ab...@fidelity.com for Fidelity.com and techad...@discoverfinancial.com for Discover.com, so those would be worth trying, even though this isn't really an issue of abuse. I'd probably also add in nssd@fisglobal.com from the contact info for that Fidelity IP block, found via A

Re: [mailop] The oligopoly has won.

2022-09-12 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
I've got strong feelings about this one. I recently moved some of my domains off of Gmail and it's been great to add more granular filtering directly and watch mail bounce. So I'm hosting inbound mail. And I forward a bunch of mail. And I host a handful of mailing lists, so I've got a server with g

Re: [mailop] mailbox.org down?

2022-09-07 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
It's all responding for me; their website, IMAP endpoint, and SMTP injection endpoint. Regards, Al Iverson On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 6:06 PM John Von Essen via mailop wrote: > > For the last 15 mins or so. Website is down, and smtp/imap endpoints are > down, MX is down, etc.,. Like their network j

Re: [mailop] Gmail spam scoring via IPv6 different than IPv4?

2022-08-12 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Hey Jesse, This is sort of controversial and you'll get some people saying very vehemently that you should never do this ever, for various reasons of interoperability or strong opinions about how the internet works. But instead, here's my take from an operational perspective... I personally would

Re: [mailop] Microsoft Sending DMARC Reports From IP In SBL

2022-07-25 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 3:25 PM Matt Corallo wrote: > On 7/25/22 3:58 PM, Al Iverson via mailop wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 2:37 PM Matt Corallo via mailop > > wrote: > > > >> I don't believe SA does authentication checks on all Received: lines,

Re: [mailop] Microsoft Sending DMARC Reports From IP In SBL

2022-07-25 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 2:37 PM Matt Corallo via mailop wrote: > I don't believe SA does authentication checks on all Received: lines, no, it > only runs them through > the various DNSBLs. I don't see why "you relayed mail from something in a > DNSBL" should be avoided > as one of the many sign

Re: [mailop] Did Google become stricter about RFC 5322?

2022-07-13 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Yeah, I'm not seeing Google be "hostile" to mailing lists if the mail fully authenticates properly. I've felt mailing lists and authentication and Gmail were a solved problem, at least from my perspective, for a number of years now. What bit me recently was a bug, not some pushback against my busin

Re: [mailop] Did Google become stricter about RFC 5322?

2022-07-13 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
I've gotten bitten by this too, as I had my homebrew mailing list manager intermittently generating messages with two message ID headers -- but not in the past few days -- more like a couple of months ago. So it could be new-ish, I guess. Cheers, Al On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 5:34 AM Philip Paeps vi

Re: [mailop] Moving email server to new IP

2022-07-08 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
IP rep is a big deal, still. You might want to keep the existing IP. Or if you do plan to keep it, relay mail from your new server through it. SMB/low volume mail is the trickiest to sort of IP warm correctly, so I honestly expect you'll have some pain. Here and elsewhere you'll find people compla

Re: [mailop] Interesting question from a team member, MX chaining, list-manage.com

2022-07-01 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
> list-manage.com > This domain does not have any A records. That's not what I see from here. https://xnnd.com/dns.cgi?t=a&d=list-manage.com list-manage.com has address 205.201.132.96 And when you go to https://list-manage.com, you get a notice that this is a Mailchimp domain. > It has a single M

Re: [mailop] Microsoft Announces Tenant Trusted ARC Seal

2022-06-20 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 11:41 AM Paulo Pinto via mailop wrote: > > >ARC is motivated by the cases where DKIM/SPF/DMARC information about the > >author/originator get broken. > > I'm truly trying to find a justification to break DKIM/SPF on a message after > it is sent. I don't know why people do

Re: [mailop] digilabsvc.com?

2022-06-19 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
your spammer is their client. Cheers, Al Iverson On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 9:20 AM Daniele Nicolodi via mailop < mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > On 19/06/2022 00:16, Al Iverson via mailop wrote: > > Data points: > > - Supposedly a digital marketing company based in India > &g

Re: [mailop] digilabsvc.com?

2022-06-18 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Data points: - Supposedly a digital marketing company based in India - Their website has an SSL issue - I see no other mentions of them in 20 years of email discussion history talking about spam or email marketing. Which I guess means they're not necessarily well known spammers in my universe, but

Re: [mailop] Microsoft Announces Tenant Trusted ARC Seal

2022-06-16 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Jeff, this is really interesting. Thanks for sharing. This answers a lingering question for me as far as what practical applications there can be for ARC in a context other than a mailing list. Am I getting this right -- the way this would work is that another email platform would sign/"seal" a cu

Re: [mailop] Best practice for mailing list servers

2022-06-15 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 4:22 PM John Levine via mailop wrote: > > It appears that Ken O'Driscoll via mailop said: > >Hi Slavo, > > > >p=none is not always harmless. Some message filters treat p=none differently > >to not having DMARC. I've observed this as well. > Really? I'm not sure how muc

Re: [mailop] outlook/hotmail (silently!) putting legit msgs into "Junk Email" folder

2022-06-01 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Rob, the geek guidance here is to do some tests of similar/same content sent from two places, webmail and Thunderbird, and then "diff" the results to see what's different. Particular things to look at: - MIME headers - Character encoding And basically just try to find what Thunderbird or Outlook

Re: [mailop] aol email help

2022-05-18 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
As Lyle says, AOL and Yahoo are the same entity nowadays. So you'll want to go here - https://senders.yahooinc.com/ - click on contact, and click on the first button (problems). Lyle -- they are no longer Verizon Media, FYI: https://www.spamresource.com/2021/09/yahoo-is-yahoo-again.html Cheers, A

Re: [mailop] Spamhaus "open resolver" errors

2022-05-13 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
This isn't really new but I guess it's good to keep banging the drum. I blogged about it back in January - https://www.spamresource.com/2022/01/querying-spamhaus-via-cloudflare-dns.html It's clear to me that Spamhaus has long taken a dim view of querying via public resolvers; but their strategy to

Re: [mailop] The world lost another spamfighter

2022-05-08 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Alan Murphy was one of a kind; I'm very sad that he is no longer with us but I'm very happy and lucky to have known him and to have known him to be a force for good both online and in real life, for so many years. He made the world better and was a kind person to boot. Cheers, Al Iverson On Sun,

[mailop] What do these Gmail headers do?

2022-04-29 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Anybody familiar with the Gmail headers X-Gm-Message-State and X-Google-Smtp-Source? A coworker asked about them, but I am not really familiar. Figured I'd see here if anybody knows anything about them. Thanks in advance for your thoughts or feedback! Cheers, Al -- Al Iverson / Deliverability b

Re: [mailop] Does anyone know, how operates h-email.net email service?

2022-04-29 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 8:21 AM Benoît Panizzon via mailop wrote: > > Hi List > > Privacy Policies make it hard for us to solve the email issue of one of > our customers. > > schlageropenair.ch mail is handled by 5 mail.h-email.net. > > It looks like the MX was recently changed. > > Our customer h

Re: [mailop] is caniuseapurchasedemaillist.com down?

2022-04-27 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Try https://www.shouldiuseapurchasedemaillist.com (I tried to keep it brand free, not trying to sell anything there, other than best practices.) Cheers, Al On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 10:58 AM Anne Mitchell via mailop wrote: > > > i need this page from time to time. > > > > caniuseapurchasedemailli

Re: [mailop] WTaF? I just got spammed BY Active Campaign

2022-04-26 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 5:54 PM Matt Vernhout via mailop wrote: > > One rogue sales person sending cold email doesn’t mean the whole company is > bad either. Things that really grind my gears: - Business practices or industries that engender abuse (looking at you, payday loans) - Sheer volume of

Re: [mailop] [E] $GOOG - IPv6 aside

2022-04-15 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
lem wrote: > > You're not wrong. Depends on email volume level and server config. > > They're just so sensitive to reputation for IPv6 sends, though. Don't > > even try without SPF and DKIM, and even then, get ready for some > > possible pain. > > For well managed mail servers, supporting well man

Re: [mailop] [E] $GOOG - IPv6 aside

2022-04-15 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 10:36 AM Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: > > On 4/15/22 8:24 AM, Al Iverson via mailop wrote: > > Don't send to Gmail over IPv6. > > Drive by comment. > > It is possible to send to Google via IPv6. My personal / small / > bespoke serve

Re: [mailop] [E] $GOOG

2022-04-15 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 7:41 AM Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop wrote: > > Dnia 14.04.2022 o godz. 12:40:52 Al Iverson via mailop pisze: > > > Yes, it is unfixable. Once Google's AI decides (for no apparent reason) > > > that > > > it will reject e-mails from you,

Re: [mailop] [E] $GOOG

2022-04-14 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 12:00 PM Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop wrote: > > Dnia 13.04.2022 o godz. 19:44:52 Al Iverson via mailop pisze: > > > > Seconded. Google does not do things the way I would, and I find them > > frustrating, yes, but no, it is not true about there bein

Re: [mailop] Best mailbox provider for personal domain?

2022-04-14 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
IMAP download is indeed a lot slower than Google Takeout -- I learned that the hard way. I tried to download it all via IMAP then gave up and switched to Google Takeout. FYI, Apple Mail will read the Google Takeout MBOX file, so that gives you a place to open and browse your archive, if you like.

Re: [mailop] $GOOG

2022-04-13 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
I've seen it happen perhaps twice in twenty years, from what I can non-scientifically recall. 99.9% of the time we've had somebody complain they can't find the mail in their Gmail account, it is because it's in their spam folder. I'm not particularly worried that there's some new outbreak of th

Re: [mailop] [E] $GOOG

2022-04-13 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
>> that google is provably wrong and provably non-transarent in how they >> decide what inbound e-mail to reject. > > Unless you have a solution which ensures that only good senders are able to > send email, then yes, you will find that receivers will be mostly > non-transparent on how they decid

Re: [mailop] Exact Target (Pardot) unsubscribe link is insecure..

2022-04-13 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
This isn't Pardot or Salesforce support so I don't know what good it does to post about it here, to be honest. Pardot clients can/should implement SSL on their tracker domain (which includes the list-unsub domain): https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=000318025&type=1 I just read a blog p

Re: [mailop] Can someone from google/gmail contact me offlist?

2022-03-30 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 2:53 AM Dan Mahoney via mailop wrote: > > Day Job (ISC.org) is having delivery issues to gmail due to our “very low” > reputation. I call shenanigans. > > Mar 30 07:21:58 post postfix/smtp[75122]: D7B673AB008: > to=, > relay=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[2607:f8b0:400c:c14

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