Re: [mailop] Recommendation for inbox provider?

2021-09-06 Thread Steve Holdoway via mailop
I wouldn't offer anything other than one of those two *especially* as they are tech challenged. Unless you want a job for life that is... September 7, 2021 10:47 AM, "Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop" wrote: > All, > > I know someone who is setting up a business domain, and needs an inbox h

Re: [mailop] [EXTERNAL] Re: Hotmail and block on OVH: possible solutions alternatives?

2021-02-25 Thread Steve Holdoway via mailop
last I heard the ip blocklists worked at /64 granularity Had one provider dole them out singly... February 26, 2021 12:48 PM, "Andrew C Aitchison via mailop" wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2021, Michael Wise via mailop wrote: > >> https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=614866&clcid > > Hmm. No

Re: [mailop] Good Hosting Suggestions?

2021-02-21 Thread Steve Holdoway via mailop
Oh dear, /dev/nvme2n1 on /data/mongodb type ext4 (rw,noatime) ( yeah I only run it on ec2 ) but not a word of complaint. https://scalegrid.io/blog/xfs-vs-ext4-comparing-mongodb-performance-on-aws-ec2 Given average performance of linode disks - not a complaint, I'm a happy linode user - switchi

Re: [mailop] What's the point of secondary MX servers?

2020-12-17 Thread Steve Holdoway via mailop
Migration for a start December 18, 2020 10:28 AM, "John Levine via mailop" wrote: > As we all know, MX records have a priority number, and mail senders > are supposed to try the highest priority/lowest number servers first, > then fall back to the lower priority. > > I understand why secondary

Re: [mailop] Gmail doesn't like my IPv6 address, why?

2019-12-18 Thread Steve Holdoway via mailop
Anecdotal, but last time I delved deep into this, apparently the majority of spam was sent via IPv6 December 19, 2019 12:16 PM, "Brian via mailop" wrote: > On Wed, 2019-12-18 at 13:44 -0800, Mark Milhollan via mailop wrote: > >> IPv6 is normally preferred so if you have published an for t

Re: [mailop] Can someone write me a prescription for a sane MTA? I'm allergic to Postfix.

2019-12-05 Thread Steve Holdoway via mailop
Still on sendmail... not wasting those 10's of thousands of hours! December 6, 2019 1:03 PM, "Brielle via mailop" wrote: > I use Exim, and have been for a lng time. The multi-file config package > in Debian is quite nice > and makes it easy to configure and customize. > > On 12/5/2019 4:36

Re: [mailop] Suggestions for VPS providers in Europe?

2019-12-02 Thread Steve Holdoway via mailop
Well, we did leave Amazon SES a couple of years ago, and I haven't used them since. Just like my views on KDE, it was crap at version 1, so I've never used since (: Steve December 3, 2019 2:45 PM, "Michael Peddemors via mailop" wrote: > On 2019-12-02 4:53 p.m., St

Re: [mailop] Suggestions for VPS providers in Europe?

2019-12-02 Thread Steve Holdoway via mailop
December 3, 2019 1:46 PM, "Luis E. Muñoz via mailop" wrote: > On 2 Dec 2019, at 15:59, John Levine via mailop wrote: > >> I warned a guy away from Hetzner and OVH if he wants to send mail so > he >> reasonably asked what VPS provider in Europe is better for sending > mail. >> >> Any suggestions

Re: [mailop] Amazon AWS SES (Simple Email Services) what could cause a domain to be blocked?

2019-08-12 Thread Steve Holdoway via mailop
We found no way, and in the end migrated high hundreds of customers to an alternative service. It was a mind blowingly tedious chore, but 2 years on we're glad we did it. Steve August 12, 2019 7:33 PM, "Benoit Panizzon via mailop" wrote: > Hi List > > Amazon AWS SES Support drives me and the

Re: [mailop] SPF: What happens if includes specify different 'all' settings?

2019-06-27 Thread Steve Holdoway via mailop
I think you may be missing the point here ( apologies if this has already been mentioned ). Because you, the sender have no control at all on the recipients actions, it is only an indication... As an example, the SPF record is often used to evaluate the sender's domain, whereas it should only b