Re: [mailop] Invalid address ratio?

2018-02-02 Thread ComKal Networks
> I'm a bit surprised, that on a small mail server, 77 % of the rejected > mails are rejected because of invalid recipient adresses. 22 % because > of DNSBL. > Is this ratio normal? There abouts, email is free, for a certain class, so adding a lot of names to the left of the @ is very old school

Re: [mailop] Heads Up

2018-01-19 Thread ComKal Networks
Hi Michelle, You have been around long enough to know that a secured commercial entity simply means it will take longer for that their data to be leaked Vs a non secured commercial entity :) And that facebook provides customer information to 'associated' third parties for whatever purpose. 3 yea

Re: [mailop] spamalarm.org

2017-10-26 Thread ComKal Networks
> spamalarm.org Creation Date: 2017-07-25T10:15:18Z Registry Expiry Date: 2018-07-25T10:15:18Z Country: Syria (Damaskus) > The sender pretends to co-operate with and antispam reporting > organization http://spamalarm.org and recommends that recipients not > wanting his emails should report them t

Re: [mailop] SPF record

2017-05-21 Thread ComKal Networks
Hi, I use "-all" for my primary domain simply because we don't use mobiles, outgrew them 17 years ago. All email from my primary will only ever originate from my server. My primary domain doesn't forward received emails to anywhere else on receipt, and never will. Anyone forwards an email I've se

[mailop] Do we need a new list for reporting spam? (Was Re: Admin: This is not a place to report Spam. )

2017-04-10 Thread ComKal Networks
Hi Anne, > This brings up a good point...back in 'the day' folks would > report spam on NANAE; is there a managed, moderated > mailing list to report spam, that has the main ESPs and such > on it? I cant see the need for one, abuse@ (or whatever is listed in whois) works fine most of the time to

Re: [mailop] Spammers mining SPF records (of all things)

2017-03-10 Thread ComKal Networks
Hi Philip, > Obviously I don't allow relaying without authentication but I hadn't > realised spammers were now harvesting SPF records. > Anyone else noticed this? I have noticed the scrapping of whois and dns records appears to have increased dramatically over the past 2 years. Often when sel

Re: [mailop] SORBS help

2017-01-06 Thread ComKal Networks
> So if you're goal is to solve problems, then what's the point of having a > minimum 48 hour block when the problem is solved at the origin within > minutes? That's just punitive and not constructive. a) When you run an RBL, the bulk of so called abuse departments reply that the problem is solved

Re: [mailop] Spamcop: 'this is not spam' feedback form broken?

2017-01-02 Thread ComKal Networks
> It is my experience with Spamcop that whatever you may say, it doesn't > matter to them as long as the recipient said it was spam. My sense is that > there is no exception to what can be reported. I've found them to be flexible the one time I stuffed up with a submission. The other time I stuffe

Re: [mailop] Spamhaus and Spamcop Blacklisting

2016-09-13 Thread ComKal Networks
On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:26:15 -0500 Chris Boyd wrote: > > That's a Limestone Networks IP range, so Limestone will > need to contact Spamhaus. Limestone used to smack > spammers, but over the last couple of years they seem to > have become quite spam friendly. Currently any range of Limestone's th