Re: [mailop] Looking for GoDaddy email/DNS contact

2019-04-27 Thread frnkblk
It's cleaned up now -- maybe it automatically happened after the aforementioned quarantine? Thanks, Frank -Original Message- From: mailop On Behalf Of Bill Cole Sent: Friday, April 26, 2019 3:27 PM To: mailop@mailop.org Subject: Re: [mailop] Looking for GoDaddy email/DNS contact On 2

[mailop] Looking for GoDaddy email/DNS contact

2019-04-25 Thread frnkblk
We had a customer not renew their domain name (IRONINGENUITY.COM), but upon expiration their MX records were left still pointing to us. We're looking for a way for that to get cleaned up (ideally null MX record, second best is to reset to GoDaddy's default MX record for such domains), but since th

[mailop] Mandrill service outage

2019-02-05 Thread frnkblk
FYI: https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/331556/mailchimps-mandrill-ap p-suffers-service-outage-c.html ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] No MX records for mail.mil

2018-05-03 Thread frnkblk
Looks to be a DNSsec issue ... please correct me if I have that wrong. Frank -Original Message- From: Frank Bulk (frnk...@iname.com) Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2018 8:28 AM To: 'mailop@mailop.org' (mailop@mailop.org) Subject: No MX records for mail.mil I haven't investigated this thorough

[mailop] No MX records for mail.mil

2018-05-03 Thread frnkblk
I haven't investigated this thoroughly, but it seems like mail.mil is not returning MX records from certain DNS resolvers. Frank DNS server: 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare DNS) ; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> MX mail.mil @1.1.1.1 ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;;

Re: [mailop] Email issues to outlook.com and hotmail.com this afternoon/evening

2018-02-22 Thread frnkblk
Thanks. Most of them are "AS843". I wish I knew what that meant. Poking through those pending outbound messages in our queues, nothing seems sneaky or suspicious about them. Hopefully they will eventually deliver. Frank -Original Message- From: Benjamin BILLON Sent: Thursday, Febr

[mailop] Email issues to outlook.com and hotmail.com this afternoon/evening

2018-02-22 Thread frnkblk
Anyone else see email queued up to outlook.com and Hotmail.com domains? It started around 5:30 pm U.S. Central and we're still seeing some issues. Here are some just some status logs from our email servers: @outlook.com Site outlook.com (104.47.38.33) said after data sent: 452 4.3.1 Insufficie

[mailop] Anyone else seeing "451 4.7.500 Server busy" from Hotmail?

2018-01-04 Thread frnkblk
Starting just after 9 pm (U.S. Central) we started seeing a little: ubad=14039790, Site (hotmail.com/104.47.10.33) said: 451 4.7.500 Server busy. Please try again later from [96.31.0.20]. (AS761) [DB5EUR03FT004.eop-EUR03.prod.protection.outlook.com] ubad=14039790, Site (hotmail.com/

Re: [mailop] Looks like GoDaddy is having email issues

2017-09-25 Thread frnkblk
Our outbound queues are draining now, down 37% from 10:56 pm U.S. Central, where it was the highest of the last 16 hours. Frank -Original Message- From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnk...@iname.com] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2017 11:59 AM To: Anne P. Mitchell Esq. ; mailop@mailop.org Subject:

Re: [mailop] Comcast timeouts

2017-09-25 Thread frnkblk
Our spam filtering vendor also saw it in their outbound queues: https://edgewavecom.statuspage.io/ Frank From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of Brotman, Alexander Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 2:18 PM To: mailop@mailop.org Subject: Re: [mailop] Comcast timeouts

[mailop] Anyone else email see email delays to cox.net today?

2017-07-24 Thread frnkblk
We saw email delivery delays to cox.net today, between 12:58 and 7:32 pm (U.S. Central). Our email server logged the following for each of them: Site cox.net (68.6.19.3) said in response to MAIL FROM (452 4.1.0 ESMTP server temporarily not available - Refer to Error Codes section at http:/

Re: [mailop] Email delivery to Yahoo! and Frontier (who also uses Yahoo! email)

2017-07-13 Thread frnkblk
We saw things clear up around 1:20 pm U.S. Central. Whatever it was, it didn’t really show up in DownDetector, so end-user facing access was apparently OK. Frank From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of Torsten Reinert via mailop Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 1:33 PM

[mailop] Email issues to mx01.perfora.net?

2017-06-08 Thread frnkblk
Anyone else seeing delivery issues to mx01.perfora.net? Sample logs/data below: Frank Open (74.208.5.21) Error 181sec (399 TCP Read failed (Err Code Zero after 180 seconds) 180 sec) ubad=14022638, Site (sibleypresby.church/74.208.5.21) said: 450 Requested mail action not taken: mailbox unavailab

Re: [mailop] So, about this iOS10 unsubscribe feature...

2017-06-02 Thread frnkblk
Exactly. =) This week was calm -- no alerts regarding our server queues about this issue. Perhaps it was just one spammer that had a non-working SMTP server. Frank -Original Message- From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of Bill Cole Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2017 7:1

Re: [mailop] Hotmail server(s) out of memory?

2017-06-02 Thread frnkblk
Thanks. Last logged occurrence was 5:07 pm U.S. Central. Frank From: Michael Wise [mailto:michael.w...@microsoft.com] Sent: Friday, June 2, 2017 12:13 PM To: Frank Bulk ; mailop@mailop.org Subject: RE: [mailop] Hotmail server(s) out of memory? Looks like the issue is being mitigate

Re: [mailop] So, about this iOS10 unsubscribe feature...

2017-05-23 Thread frnkblk
It appears to be the second -- some bulk mail sender has started sending mail with invalid Unsubscribe information and users that try to unsubscribe are generating queue noise. Frank From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of Dave Warren Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 9:41 P

Re: [mailop] So, about this iOS10 unsubscribe feature...

2017-05-22 Thread frnkblk
Just starting last week we started seeing our outbound queues fill up with undeliverable client messages generated because of this one-click unsubscribe feature. Since this Apple feature has been in place for over six months, I’m surprised we haven’t seen this until now. Here are the domain

Re: [mailop] SPF record

2017-05-21 Thread frnkblk
Same here -- many of my customers, for example those who go to O365, aren't aware of the implications when they add Microsoft's suggested SPF record, and then wonder why some emails (originated from a non-O365 system) aren't being received. Fortunately our helpdesk is very attuned to these issues

Re: [mailop] SPF record

2017-05-21 Thread frnkblk
sm, Do you think the sending domain was not aware of that when they wrote the policy? Frank -Original Message- From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of SM Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2017 8:13 AM To: Kurt Jaeger ; mailop@mailop.org Subject: Re: [mailop] SPF record Hi Kur

Re: [mailop] Many SPF failures lately

2017-05-20 Thread frnkblk
Neil, Thanks for sharing with ExactTarget. Are you saying that checking the box on our commercial spam filtering system’s “check SPF” feature, which quarantines messages that have SPF failures (-all), was a poor decision on my part? I don’t understand what DMARC has to do with this

Re: [mailop] Many SPF failures lately

2017-05-20 Thread frnkblk
I guess it depends on how our customers forward to the email account provided by us. I’m sure that there are some messages that we do block due to forwarding, but when I manually examined four weeks of SPF-based blocks, I don’t recall seeing one example. You’re very much right that waiting for

Re: [mailop] Many SPF failures lately

2017-05-19 Thread frnkblk
John, I'm a bit bewildered -- these aren't random strangers, they're the actual sender. Am I supposed to second-guess the sender's instructions? If I have to second-guess every sender's "-all" then I have to have another layer of subjective analysis -- currently manual, in my situation. Frank

Re: [mailop] Many SPF failures lately

2017-05-19 Thread frnkblk
I looked at the last week of blocked email from Travelocity.com and found just one blocked message. It was a flight change email from traveloc...@e.travelocity.com with a source IP of 66.244.67.50. fbulk@frankb-PC:/mnt/c/Users/fbulk$ dig TXT e.travelocity.com +short "spf2.0/pra include:cust-sen

Re: [mailop] Many SPF failures lately

2017-05-19 Thread frnkblk
Yet the senders, via their SPF records with a "-all", told me to reject those messages. As MTA's, we're doing what the send told us to do. Frank -Original Message- From: John Levine [mailto:jo...@taugh.com] Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 9:56 AM To: mailop@mailop.org Cc: frnk...@iname.com S

Re: [mailop] SymantecCloud "Message filtered"

2017-05-19 Thread frnkblk
My $WORK domain is also labeled the same “50”, so I suspect the same “limited sampling” issue. Frank From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of Stefano Bagnara Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 9:03 AM To: mailop Subject: Re: [mailop] SymantecCloud "Message filtered" On 1

Re: [mailop] Many SPF failures lately

2017-05-19 Thread frnkblk
We have an automated SPF checking system in place for clients/partners/vendors and auto-notify them of invalid/malformed SPF records every three weeks. The responsive ones got them fixed up, but I still have three die-hards that haven't made any changes. Their domains are low-volume, so they p

[mailop] Yahoo email issues this afternoon

2017-03-20 Thread frnkblk
Our outbound email queues to Yahoo were somewhat delayed this afternoon .. from what I see on downdetector.com, looks like it's not just us. http://downdetector.com/status/yahoo-mail Our queues are draining and the downdetector graph suggests that the issue is resolving. Frank

Re: [mailop] HB spike from Yahoo?

2017-01-24 Thread frnkblk
Not sure this this is related: http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/758307/BT-Mail-Down-Email-Address-BT-Internet-Not-Working Frank From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of Alberto Miscia via mailop Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 12:06 PM To: mailop@

Re: [mailop] Lack of TLS 1.1/1.2 support on Apple email products

2016-08-13 Thread frnkblk
Bill, Thanks for bringing up all those points. While perhaps the practical implications of the TLS1.0's brokenness may not be as applicable to email, it doesn't mean ESPs should automatically be satisfied with the status quo. If most vendors have found a way to implement TLS 1.1 and 1.2 then

Re: [mailop] Email issues with Microsoft?

2016-06-30 Thread frnkblk
We saw this start to ramp up around 8:20 am (U.S. Central) and about an hour later messages were predominately getting delayed, yet even now a few do get delivered from time to time. Someone on the outages listserv posted about this, too. (https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2016-June/0092

[mailop] Email issues with Microsoft?

2016-06-30 Thread frnkblk
We're seeing multiple Microsoft-hosted domains having difficulty getting our email. @hsitire.com Open (207.46.163.170) Error 4sec (399 TCP Read failed (Connection reset by peer after 4 seconds) 4 sec) @animalhealthinternational.comOpen (207.46.163.170) Error 4sec (

Re: [mailop] Lack of TLS 1.1/1.2 support on Apple email products

2016-06-24 Thread frnkblk
I want to disable it for the reasons that Eric spelled out. TLS 1.0 is broken, so if we turn it off on websites, shouldn't we turn it off for all protocols? Not that we promise our customers end-to-end encryption for all their e-mail messages and handling, but I'd like to take advantage of the

[mailop] More issues with cableone.net today (repeat of March 16 and May 12)

2016-05-29 Thread frnkblk
Sounds like Synacor (who hosts cableone.net) has had issues again. From our email server logs: Open (64.8.70.47) Error 0sec (421 4.3.4 allocated resources exceeded) Open (64.8.70.47) Error 4sec (399 TCP Read failed (Connection reset by peer after 4 seconds) 4 sec) First log entry

Re: [mailop] Connection failures to Hotmail domains

2016-05-25 Thread frnkblk
Finally has a chance to look at my logs … looking at error count over time (all U.S. Central) I see the following: Server 1: 1 25 12:3 1 25 12:4 4 25 13:1 22 25 13:2 22 25 13:3 24 25 13:4 31 25 13:5 18 25 14:0 8 25 14:1 16 25 14:2

Re: [mailop] Connection failures to Hotmail domains

2016-05-25 Thread frnkblk
We saw the same thing too, just too busy dealing with the fallout of a lightning strike. Frank -Original Message- From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of Keenan Tims Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 3:09 PM To: mailop@mailop.org Subject: [mailop] Connection failures to

Re: [mailop] Humor of the day

2016-05-03 Thread frnkblk
FYI, we did see more delivery issues to 98.139.171.245 for other Yahoo! hosted email domains, with our email server logging: (98.139.171.245) said in response to MAIL FROM (451 4.3.2 Internal error reading data) I saw first one at 10:30 am and last one was 7:36 pm (U.S. Central), so it's

[mailop] Humor of the day

2016-05-03 Thread frnkblk
When connecting to this email host telnet 98.139.171.245 25 Trying 98.139.171.245... 2016 May 3 12:17:20 10.18.120.197 BCMSDK - unit 0 L3_ENTRY_IPV6_UNICAST entry 1487 parity error 2016 May 3 12:17:20 10.18.120.197 BCMSDK - Unit 0: mem: 2103=L3_ENTRY_IPV6_UNICAST blkoffset:9 2016 May 3 12:

Re: [mailop] SPF check overly stringent?

2016-04-30 Thread frnkblk
Is this worth bringing up to the appropriate IETF group? Perhaps it could be errata for RFC 7208 Section 5.4? Frank -Original Message- From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of Steve Atkins Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 12:18 PM To: mailop Subject: Re: [mailop] SPF ch

Re: [mailop] SPF check overly stringent?

2016-04-30 Thread frnkblk
Thanks, I see same thing test right now, I’ll report it. Frank From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of Kurt Andersen (b) Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 12:40 PM To: Steve Atkins Cc: mailop Subject: Re: [mailop] SPF check overly stringent? On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:

Re: [mailop] SPF check overly stringent?

2016-04-30 Thread frnkblk
Steve, Thanks for your feedback. Seems that the Word to Wise SPF checking tool skips "2607:fe28:0:4000::20" when I check sigiowa.com. Frank -Original Message- From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of Steve Atkins Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 12:18 PM To: mailop Sub

Re: [mailop] Hotmail connection errors

2016-04-11 Thread frnkblk
Probably not related, but we had a few of these today, first one at 8:16 am (Central), last one at 2:30 pm: ubad=-1, Site (redacted.domain/207.46.163.170) said: 451 4.3.2 Temporary server error. Please try again later ATTR2 We saw these IPs involved: 207.46.163.138 207.46.163.170 207.46.

Re: [mailop] Hotmail connection errors

2016-04-06 Thread frnkblk
We saw this in small part today, starting at 10:45 am (Central), and clearing up by 6:36 pm. Our email server logged this; 399 TCP Read failed (Connection reset by peer after 32 seconds) Across several MXes. Frank From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf

Re: [mailop] Email to hickorytech.net delayed

2016-04-03 Thread frnkblk
Delivery resumed at 7:42 pm (Central) and our queue is now drained. Never heard anything back from my own contacts or tweets. Frank -Original Message- From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of frnk...@iname.com Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2016 12:18 PM To: mailop@mailop.or

[mailop] Email to hickorytech.net delayed

2016-04-03 Thread frnkblk
Since 9:11 pm (U.S. Central) we've been seeing our queue to hickortyech.net (now owned by Consolidated Communications) backup with messages like this logged on our email server: Site (hickorytech.net/192.86.64.40) said: 451 4.3.0 : Temporary lookup failure with IPs 192.86.64.40, .41, and .4

Re: [mailop] Gmail red open padlock composing message

2016-04-02 Thread frnkblk
You can also try: https://sslanalyzer.comodoca.com/ Just append ":25" to the host. Frank -Original Message- From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of Tim Bray Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 3:58 AM To: Kirk MacDonald ; mailop@mailop.org Subject: Re: [mailop] Gmail red ope

Re: [mailop] Gmail red open padlock composing message

2016-04-02 Thread frnkblk
Anyone aware of email servers that take the approach that CloudFlare has, which is not allow the lowest common denominator or cleartext to be used if there’s a better/more-secure cipher, but still support the old stuff (in CloudFlare’s case, SHA-1) if that’s all it can do? https://blog.cloudfla

Re: [mailop] Yahoo DMARC changes

2016-03-22 Thread frnkblk
Are you taking that approach because the workaround is less than ideal? Otherwise the current “workaround” could be the new standard. Frank From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of Vick Khera Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 8:54 PM To: mailop Subject: Re: [mailop] Yahoo

Re: [mailop] Email delivery issues to yahoo.com

2016-03-20 Thread frnkblk
Thanks. By 2:30 pm (U.S. Central) our outbound queues were essentially drained. Frank From: cverv...@apple.com [mailto:cverv...@apple.com] Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2016 3:11 PM To: Frank Bulk Cc: stevem ; Alarig Le Lay ; mailop@mailop.org Subject: Re: [mailop] Email delivery issues to ya

Re: [mailop] Email issue with Synacor?

2016-03-19 Thread frnkblk
Our queues are all caught up. Frank From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of Frank Bulk Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 3:56 PM To: 'Brett Schenker' ; Vick Khera Cc: mailop@mailop.org Subject: Re: [mailop] Email issue with Synacor? Thanks. The CableOne NOC responde

Re: [mailop] TLS/SSL DROWN attack with respect to email servers

2016-03-06 Thread frnkblk
Now this isn’t email servers, but in terms of websites, ~9% of surveyed sites support it: https://www.trustworthyinternet.org/ssl-pulse/ Frank From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of Brandon Long via mailop Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 7:30 PM To: Franck Martin C

Re: [mailop] Spike in "554 Transaction failed" from Microsoft properties

2016-02-05 Thread frnkblk
Thanks for the additional data points -- so it isn't just me. What's nasty is that the messages are kicked back to the sender, not just delayed. Frank -Original Message- From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of Frank Bulk Sent: Friday, February 05, 2016 5:27 PM To: m

[mailop] Yahoo issues this evening?

2016-01-22 Thread frnkblk
We saw some of this in our logs tonight: Site yahoo.com (98.136.217.203) said in response to MAIL FROM (451 4.3.2 Internal error reading data) Site yahoo.com (66.196.118.36) said in response to MAIL FROM (451 4.3.2 Internal error reading data) Site yahoo.com (66.196.118.37) said in response to MAI

Re: [mailop] crippling gmail rate limit

2015-12-11 Thread frnkblk
I'd recommend that rather than forward messages to Google that you have those Google accounts POP the messages from smokva.net. Frank -Original Message- From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of Petar Bogdanovic Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 9:44 AM To: mailop@mailo

Re: [mailop] Email backed up to cableone.net

2015-11-24 Thread frnkblk
CableOne NOC contacted me to check ... by which times our outbound queue for cableone.net was already empty. Issues appears to have been resolved by their partner, Synacor. Frank -Original Message- From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of frnk...@iname.com Sent: Tue

Re: [mailop] Email backed up to cableone.net

2015-11-24 Thread frnkblk
I'm pleasantly surprised -- the CableOne NOC responded in less than ten minutes, acknowledging the issue and indicating they have already contacted their vendor. From the response, it appears that intra-domain email is working for their customers. Frank -Original Message- From: Frank Bul

Re: [mailop] Delivery issues to sbcglobal.net

2015-11-10 Thread frnkblk
@ATTCares confirmed it was affecting Yahoo mail, too. My queues cleared up around 9 pm Central. Frank -Original Message- From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of Frank Bulk Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 5:42 PM To: 'Jay Hennigan' ; mailop@mailop.org Subject: Re: [m

Re: [mailop] Hotmail/Microsoft Contact Available?

2015-09-18 Thread frnkblk
We alias all the abuse addresses for the domains we host to our ISP abuse account ... we get very little spam. Frank -Original Message- From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Newton Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 7:27 AM To: David Hofstee Cc: mailop@mail

[mailop] FW: [outages] gmail delay

2015-06-09 Thread frnkblk
FYI From: Outages [mailto:outages-boun...@outages.org] On Behalf Of Grant Ridder via Outages Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 2:09 PM To: outa...@outages.org Subject: [outages] gmail delay 6/9/15, 11:33 AM We're investigating reports of an issue with Gmail. We will provide more information

Re: [mailop] Anyone else experiencing problems with yahoo?

2015-05-06 Thread frnkblk
We’re seeing none of that. It’s all delivering to all Yahoo MTAs just fine, though we’re not hitting 98.138.112.33 very often. Frank From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of Tim Bosserman Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2015 4:20 PM To: mailop@mailop.org Subject: [mailop] An