Re: [mailop] SPF: Does include: a host without TXT entry, invalidate the whole SPF entry?

2023-06-09 Thread Joel M Snyder via mailop
Alessandro Vesely possibly may have written: >>> If you don't care enough to publish a valid SPF record, why should >>> we think you care whether we deliver your mail? >> >> The customer in question used an ESP to send marketing emails. >> That ESP told him what host to include in his SPF record

Re: [mailop] Disabling TLS 1.0 and 1.1 for MTA to MTA communication

2022-08-03 Thread Joel M Snyder via mailop
We were having a discussion on the possibility to disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 for MTA to MTA communication, and based on the numbers we've seen so far, it doesn't look that far fetched. What's the common consensus in the mail community about this currently? I don't really see the point, unless

[mailop] Google's Request to the FEC about Allowing Political Email to Bypass Spam Filtering

2022-07-10 Thread Joel M Snyder via mailop
To those of you who aren't already aware of it, Google has asked the Federal Election Commission for an opinion about Google's 'pilot project' to allow political candidates and campaigns to bypass Google's spam filters. This was just published by the FEC to the public yesterday, because Friday

Re: [mailop] Google DNS Quad 8 Outage tonight

2021-11-22 Thread Joel M Snyder via mailop
>Operating a DNS server is so easy, and latency is such a tiny bit of >overhead, with proper caching, would someone explain why they would use >(share) a 3rd party DNS server at all? Speak for yourself, friend. You want me to build 400+ small DNS resolvers and manage them world-wide? Forget th

Re: [mailop] Google DNS Quad 8 Outage tonight (Grant Taylor)

2021-11-22 Thread Joel M Snyder via mailop
>We tend to run Cloudflare quad-1 rather than Google's quad-8, though >have hit instabilities with it, too. I've been working on a fairly large (400+ sites) global WAN project and the Quad-8 fanboi foo is VERY high worldwide. Each site has an edge router which is responsible for DNS for the si

Re: [mailop] Is it something to worry about?

2021-01-20 Thread Joel M Snyder via mailop
My question is: how widely is this BL (UCEPROTECT level 3) used? Do I have to worry about deliverability? Their page tells me to ask my provider to fix the issue, which I will do, but... it's OVH, so you know... UCEPROTECT is among the worst blacklists in usefulness. They have a low catch ra

Re: [mailop] openssl on Ubuntu 20.04 - implications for email

2021-01-08 Thread Joel M Snyder via mailop
> I fully agree. The state of TLS in the mail world is quite sad and it > would be great if we could all agree on actually keeping our systems up > to date... TLS in MUA protocols (IMAP or whatever Microsoft calls MAPI this week) is fine. Not sad. TLS in SMTP mail is also not sad; it's fundamen

Re: [mailop] This is..Concerning: DatabaseUSA Wins Case, Against The Spamhaus Project

2020-08-04 Thread Joel M Snyder via mailop
On 8/4/20 2:33 AM, mailop-requ...@mailop.org wrote: > Re: [mailop] This is..Concerning: DatabaseUSA Wins Case > Against The Spamhaus Project The astonishing thing about all this is that DatabaseUSA bothered to dump thousands and thousands of dollars into lawyers to achieve a completely null

Re: [mailop] Is DNS-over-HTTPS bad? Sure. (was: Happy, Holidays Everyone!)

2020-07-06 Thread Joel M Snyder via mailop
On 7/6/20 4:00 AM, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote: > But is content filtering - especially in corporations - really based on DNS? Yes. There's a big company, Cisco (you may have heard of them) which bought OpenDNS and which is aggressively pushing their DNS-based filtering service (called Umbrella) as p

Re: [mailop] Who runs the mailspike BL and why are they blocking Yahoo?

2020-03-20 Thread Joel M Snyder via mailop
Mailspike is the worst RBL that we test (out of 33). They have the lowest catch rate (last month: 41.9%) and a high false positive rate. Even ReturnPath and SORBS do better. It's hardly worth using them, unless you're slightly adjusting your spam score based on their opinion, rather than just re

Re: [mailop] Junk filtering as a tool for unfair competition

2019-10-23 Thread Joel M Snyder via mailop
If you know how to explain what a, “Legitimate” message is, *BEFORE* it arrives, to a machine … I’d very much like to hear it. Me too. I have hand-sorted more than 1.5 million messages over the past 13 years, and there are *ALWAYS* messages that get dropped into the "don't know" category---on

[mailop] Status of Mailspike BL (Anubis Networks)

2019-10-14 Thread Joel M Snyder via mailop
Folks: In our anti-spam testing this month, Mailspike's bl.mailspike.net RBL efficacy dropped to 1.7% in detecting "bad reputation" spam IPs. That's substantially lower than their average. None of the other 38 BLs that we monitor have any significant fluctuation. I'm wondering if anyone ou