Re: [mailop] Are there other comparable services like spamcop.net / spamhaus.org?

2024-04-12 Thread Steve Freegard via mailop
ehalf (that is, provided you want us to), instead of keeping it for ourselves... And, it works for abuse types other than spam. Kind regards, Steve. On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 at 19:06, Aban Dokht via mailop wrote: > John Levine wrote: > > By the way, how do you think you're submittin

Re: [mailop] New Validity policy for paid FBL (ARF)

2023-09-21 Thread Steve Freegard via mailop
more easy (and therefore likely) for mailbox providers to implement this themselves if they wish to, or for other entities to offer a similar service should they choose. That's surely better than the current status quo and sitting back and doing nothing, right? Kind regards, Steve. On Thu

Re: [mailop] New Validity policy for paid FBL (ARF)

2023-09-21 Thread Steve Freegard via mailop
the reports and approving the CFBL-Addresses that can receive them and producing some high-level statistics that might be interesting at the same time. Kind regards, Steve. On Mon, 11 Sept 2023 at 12:29, Support 3Hound via mailop wrote: > Dear list, > I would like to understand what the comm

Re: [mailop] Legit-looking mail to the wrong address with no unsubscribe

2023-08-30 Thread Steve Shipway via mailop
, then at least include a "This is not me" link in the footer to allow people to stop the messages and highlight something is wrong! Otherwise, you're asking for lost emails at best, and being an accessory to harassment at worst. Steve -- Steve Shipway | Senior Email Secur

Re: [mailop] UCEPROTECT L2 fact

2023-05-22 Thread Steve Freegard via mailop
of DNS lookups. It's so strict and badly run that it gives the rest of us a bad name (and charges for delists...). Of all the DNSBLs that I wish would just disappear, this would be at number one on my list. Kind regards, Steve. On Mon, 22 May 2023 at 09:31, Slavko via mailop wrote: > Hi

Re: [mailop] Thoughts on envelope address local-part length limits

2023-05-15 Thread Steve Atkins via mailop
> On 14 May 2023, at 18:03, Paul Gregg via mailop wrote: > > On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 05:54:28PM +, Slavko via mailop wrote: >> Dňa 12. mája 2023 13:40:14 UTC používateľ Paul Gregg via mailop >> napísal: >> >>> 4.5.3.1. Size Limits and Minimums >> >> When you read RFC, you MUST read all

Re: [mailop] Thoughts on envelope address local-part length limits

2023-05-12 Thread Steve Atkins via mailop
ion no longer > fit for purpose? Has that horse already bolted? Do you impose any limit > and if so, what? Unless it’ll cause security or stability issues it’s reasonable to be liberal in what you accept from others, especially if not doing so would mean rejecting email that your customers

Re: [mailop] Compromised email account trends

2023-02-23 Thread Steve Freegard via mailop
blocklists/compromised-account-detection-with-abusix-mail-intelligence-and-postfix/ I'd love to hear any feedback on this. It worked extremely well in my (rather artificial) testing. Kind regards, Steve. On Wed, 22 Feb 2023 at 02:33, Carsten Schiefner via mailop < mailop@mailop.org> wrot

Re: [mailop] FYI - Google/Gmail hard enforcing SPF presence

2022-04-19 Thread Steve Atkins via mailop
or “I had to add DKIM to get mail accepted" then your sending infrastructure, history and mailstream reputation is worse than this test setup. Cheers, Steve > > > > On 2022-04-19 07:57, Laura Atkins via mailop wrote: >> Short version: google is not hard enforcing SPF

Re: [mailop] spamhaus blocking Linode IPv6 (2a01:7e01)

2021-11-25 Thread Steve Freegard via mailop
d " - abuseable web form 2a01:7e01::f03c:92ff:fee3:7758 - infected/compromised host 2a01:7e01::f03c:91ff:fece:24e8 - ""Sparkasse" " - compromised account Hope that helps. Kind regards, Steve. -- Steve Freegard Senior Product Owner Abusix Intelligence On 25/11/2021 1

Re: [mailop] Bro, do you even VERP?

2021-11-07 Thread Steve Freegard via mailop
tware or service somewhere that treated messages sent with VERP differently to regular messages?   Maybe this spammer discovered this (and I'm sure it's probably true somewhere) and uses it to improve their deliverability to some places. Kind regards, Steve. -- Steve Freegard Senior Pr

Re: [mailop] How to detect fraud login in POP IMAP or SMTP?

2021-09-23 Thread Steve Freegard via mailop
o be novel to us and is updated every minute. There's a free trial available on our website if you're interested and you're welcome to contact me off-list. Kind regards, Steve. -- Steve Freegard Senior Product Owner Abusix Intelligence On 21/09/2021 16:08, Alessio Cecchi vi

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] Complete set of rules for delivering to t-online.de ?

2021-04-09 Thread Steve Atkins via mailop
bound mail streams or historical statistics about them, and their alignment, in your customer's inbound mail streams? It'd be interesting data to share, and might make people more comfortable with your planning. Cheers,   Steve if you are sending via any sort of pool or relay and w

Re: [mailop] Spamhaus Public Mirror Error Return Code Update

2021-03-04 Thread Steve Freegard via mailop
only ones that are filtered and are not returning the new codes. Did common sense prevail and did you decide not to proceed with these changes? Kind regards, Steve. ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop

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
user - switching to XFS would make minimal, if any difference. Plus the fact that the only file system I've ever had spontaneously explode on me is... you guessed it, XFS! Steve February 22, 2021 9:08 AM, "Grant Taylor via mailop" wrote: > On 2/21/21 1:58 AM, Mary via mailop wrote:

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

2020-12-18 Thread Steve Jones via mailop
may be more useful even if the filtering isn't as thorough on the secondary. It may not be as common, but I don't see a reason to remove the option. --Steve. ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop

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] accountprotection.microsoft.com DKIM fail

2020-12-04 Thread Steve Atkins via mailop
with other DKIM implementations) DKIM signatures from Microsoft fail with OpenDKIM with bad signature data, pretty much like that. I've been assuming MS are using an algorithm OpenDKIM doesn't support, but I've not gotten around to diagnosing it mor

Re: [mailop] Trying to find the CIDR ranges for DigitalOcean

2020-10-09 Thread Steve Atkins via mailop
On 09/10/2020 13:20, Michael Orlitzky via mailop wrote: On 2020-10-09 03:19, Steve Atkins via mailop wrote: I like Hurricane Electric's tools. https://bgp.he.net/AS14061 After a copy/paste, grep, and consolidation of those ranges I wind up with... A lurker pointed out that the first

Re: [mailop] Trying to find the CIDR ranges for DigitalOcean

2020-10-09 Thread Steve Atkins via mailop
On 09/10/2020 04:41, Michael Wise via mailop wrote: I tried doing a WHOIS lookup, but it just referred me here, which doesn’t have it: I like Hurricane Electric's tools. https://bgp.he.net/AS14061 Cheers,   Steve https://www.as14061.net So far, I’ve got: 157.230/16 159.

Re: [mailop] Delisting request from sendgrid customer about ip used in recent phishing campaign.

2020-08-14 Thread Steve Freegard via mailop
uld not verify this to be abusive"... Not being on top of the Abuse reports and having strong automation around them is inexcusable. Kind regards, Steve. -- Steve Freegard Senior Product Owner Abusix Intelligence ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

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

2020-08-07 Thread Steve Linford via mailop
uot; is, literally never heard of the guy. I shouldn't comment really but this Nebraska default judgment is a wad of utter garbage if you ask me, oops I didn't type that did I, ohh good, disregard. Regards, Steve Linford Chief Executive The Spamhaus

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

2020-08-04 Thread Steve Linford via mailop
oductive. > > They really do have their office in Andorra and could be served or > sued there, but I doubt the kinds of organizations that are likely to > sue them would make much headway in Andorran courts. > > It is my impression that for this particular suit, Spamhaus wasn't

Re: [mailop] [NOTICE] Significant Uptick in Traffic from a Japanese Network

2020-06-17 Thread Steve Freegard via mailop
ng on them.   They all have Dr. Web signatures in the headers stating that they're spam though Kind regards, Steve. -- Steve Freegard Senior Product Owner Abusix Intelligence On 17/06/2020 15:28, Michael Peddemors via mailop wrote: A significant activity alert was detected o

Re: [mailop] Abusix Potentially Compromised Account Report

2020-03-24 Thread Steve Freegard via mailop
hope that this will help that situation. Kind regards, Steve. -- Steve Freegard Senior Product Owner Abusix Intelligence ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Abusix Potentially Compromised Account Report

2020-03-24 Thread Steve Freegard via mailop
und the HaveIBeenPwned API - see https://haveibeenpwned.com/API/v3#PwnedPasswords Kind regards, Steve. -- Steve Freegard Senior Product Owner Abusix Intelligence ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Abusix Potentially Compromised Account Report

2020-03-24 Thread Steve Freegard via mailop
On 24/03/2020 15:10, Chris via mailop wrote: On 2020-03-24 06:36, Steve Freegard via mailop wrote: I have great respect for you, but I didn't spend a considerable amount of development time without actually being absolutely certain about what I was doing.  Your experience is not rel

Re: [mailop] Abusix Potentially Compromised Account Report

2020-03-24 Thread Steve Freegard via mailop
ould point out to anyone that doesn't already know that both you and Rob should have done the same as you both run competing services. And that's the last thing I'm going to say on this matter... Kind regards, Steve. -- Steve Freegard Senior Product Owner Abusix Intelligence ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Abusix Potentially Compromised Account Report

2020-03-22 Thread Steve Freegard via mailop
Hi Andrew, On 22/03/2020 16:05, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 2020, Steve Freegard via mailop wrote: I didn't design this to annoy people, I did it because it's useful for the internet in general because compromised accounts are a huge issue, and one that causes

Re: [mailop] Abusix Potentially Compromised Account Report

2020-03-22 Thread Steve Freegard via mailop
ap domains, due to the very nature of them are more likely to be abused in this way and I will do what I can next week to address this and exclude them from reporting. I've already found that SORBS and Manitu don't treat Abuse and Postmaster role accounts differently. Kind regards,

Re: [mailop] Abusix Potentially Compromised Account Report

2020-03-22 Thread Steve Freegard via mailop
sure you'll understand that I can't really say on a public forum how we do this.   Catch me at a M3AAWG or other event and I'll give you more details. Kind regards, Steve. -- Steve Freegard Senior Product Owner Abusix Intelligence _

Re: [mailop] Abusix Potentially Compromised Account Report

2020-03-22 Thread Steve Freegard via mailop
h any compatible tooling and automation. My reading is that bad actors will find valid email addresses as part of successful exploits and then feed those into their automated attacks. They'll get these via database dumps, compromised hosts and phishing. Kind regards, Steve. -- Steve Freeg

Re: [mailop] Abusix Potentially Compromised Account Report

2020-03-22 Thread Steve Freegard via mailop
n this to annoy people, I did it because it's useful for the internet in general because compromised accounts are a huge issue, and one that causes issues for blacklist providers like us (e.g. if the compromised accounts are on unblockable IPs, then we have less ability to stop them), so this was

Re: [mailop] AT&T Block - abuse_...@abuse-att.net still valid?

2020-02-12 Thread Steve Atkins via mailop
se filters benefit my users? Cheers,   Steve ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Messages from small personal SMTP server being marked as junk by Google

2020-02-03 Thread Steve Atkins via mailop
rwhelm any positive signal you can produce. > > Given most small-scale personal/small-business server operators will > receive far more mail than they send, is sending out DMARC reports > likely to have a positive impact on IP reputation

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?

2019-12-04 Thread Steve Atkins via mailop
trying to send directly? Better in some respects, worse in others, I'd imagine. For non-bulk mail, probably significantly better. Cheers,   Steve ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

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
lem > > ___ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop I use linode. Moved away from Amazon SES with their draconian disconnect policies.

Re: [mailop] Best strategy to prune address list

2019-11-23 Thread Steve Atkins via mailop
gnup and similar situations. These are not the companies you go to for list cleaning. They're generally pretty inaccurate, and in ethics / respect for the email ecosystem only a step or two removed from professional spammers. If that. Cheers,   Steve __

Re: [mailop] [EXTERNAL] Re: Reasons ISPs (Microsoft) ignore DMARC policy?

2019-11-21 Thread Steve Atkins via mailop
one situation where that happens). Where do you think that 5xx message will be seen in the case of normal email forwarding? Do you expect it to be converted by them to an asynchronous bounce? Where do you expect that bounce to be delivered? Do you expect it to be seen by humans? By automatio

Re: [mailop] Gmail marking email from me as spam

2019-10-14 Thread Steve Atkins via mailop
> On Oct 14, 2019, at 4:39 PM, Nick via mailop wrote: > > On 2019-10-14 15:47 BST, Steve Atkins via mailop wrote: >> On 14/10/2019 14:58, Nick via mailop wrote: >>> >>> My question remains unanswered. Why not treat each ip address on >>> its own

Re: [mailop] Gmail marking email from me as spam

2019-10-14 Thread Steve Atkins via mailop
ck an ever-changing set of reputation-IP pairs against hostile actors is subsidizing providers whose business model relies on allowing customers to send malicious traffic, including unwanted email, to the customers of those who are being asked to expend that effort. Cheers,  

Re: [mailop] Gmail marking email from me as spam

2019-10-14 Thread Steve Atkins via mailop
tomers. Cheers,   Steve ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Gmail marking email from me as spam

2019-10-11 Thread Steve Atkins via mailop
the first few days is fairly important, extremely so at some recipient ISPs. The rest of the things you mention, though, are much less important than not sending spam and having reasonable volumes of mail to send. > > Anybody had any positive experiences of doing this in recent years? It

Re: [mailop] Resolving issues for several yahoo domains?

2019-09-05 Thread Steve Atkins via mailop
cipient ISP will consider that poor form and penalize you for it. It's a reasonable concern, so ESPs go to some effort to stay somewhat inside the constraints an ISP enforces. ("Why am I getting 4xx deferrals from Yahoo?", "Because it's a day with a Y in it.&qu

Re: [mailop] Return Path / Sender Score

2019-08-21 Thread Steve Atkins via mailop
rules to match. Cheers,   Steve ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

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 S

Re: [mailop] spam from onmicrosoft.com?

2019-07-23 Thread Steve Atkins via mailop
r @outlook.com addresses, via any reporting channel I've found over the past few years. I wouldn't say there's no point, but it's probably not the most constructive use of your time. Cheers, Steve ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailo

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

2019-06-27 Thread Steve Holdoway via mailop
only be the envelope that's checked. Steve June 27, 2019 11:08 PM, "Paul Smith via mailop" wrote: > On 27/06/2019 11:15, Andrew C Aitchison via mailop wrote: > >> For RFC7208, section 5.2 >> In hindsight, the name "include" was poorly chosen. On

Re: [mailop] About to blacklist Marketo - has anyone received non-spam from them?

2019-05-28 Thread Steve Atkins via mailop
being sent to someone who has published their email address with an invitation to contact them about relevant matters, the other case is someone misusing a list of email addresses without recipient consent. /me wonders vaguely how much of the "Marketo spam" is coming from hostnames in &qu

Re: [mailop] About to blacklist Marketo - has anyone received non-spam from them?

2019-05-28 Thread Steve Atkins via mailop
ntent of the email or as an attachment to the email) to: relea...@startribune.com. Please specify the topic of your press release in the subject line of your email." Cheers, Steve > > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 4:16 PM Jay Hennigan via mailop > wrote: > On 5/28/19 12:37 PM,

Re: [mailop] About to blacklist Marketo - has anyone received non-spam from them?

2019-05-28 Thread Steve Atkins via mailop
ng their email address in a manner from which consent to receive email > of the type transmitted may be reasonably implied." Cheers, Steve ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Block spam at smtp time, but then still forward to users spam box

2019-05-20 Thread Steve Atkins via mailop
ers, while being mostly irrelevant to bad actors. Consider what mailing lists will do in response to this, and what your user will see happen, as one example. > I am on the fence on this one, hence the reason to pick the communities brain. > > If anyone can share any thoughts

Re: [mailop] Anyone on this List with Access to Amazon SES Maillogs?

2019-05-18 Thread Steve Dodd via mailop
On Sat, 18 May 2019 at 01:00, Noel Butler via mailop wrote: > I am using HE tunnels and can access them > the demos I provided yesterday were all from HE tunnels > > nothing to see here, time to move along. > AFAIK he.net filter ingoing and outgoing port 25 *by default*: https://ipv6.he.net/cert

Re: [mailop] Howto be a good mailop (best practice / insights wanted)

2019-05-10 Thread Steve Atkins via mailop
o think about first. It also generalizes to many other poorly thought through "just use proof of work to solve email problems!" ramblings. Cheers, Steve ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Problem sending to @vtext.com

2019-05-01 Thread Steve Atkins via mailop
customer should cough up a little money and go with an SMS gateway. Cheers, Steve ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] The utility of spam folders

2019-04-27 Thread Steve Atkins
or not, appropriately. (And the ability to deliver, or not, that particular message correctly may rely critically on details about other messages from the same mail stream and recipients response to them in the previous month. Or in the next several hours.) Cheers, Steve > Non-obviou

Re: [mailop] OutLook Feebback Systems, thoughts and suggestions

2019-03-29 Thread Steve Atkins
hers will want the data in the FBL even if it's someone clicking on a mail they received six months ago, and they'll have proper infrastructure for that that doesn't forget things after a week. The sender of the FBL is the wrong place t

Re: [mailop] MTA/Network Abuse lesson

2019-03-07 Thread Steve Atkins
If you're publishing SPF -all then you should also be publishing DMARC p=reject (and signing with DKIM, if you care about legitimate mail being delivered). (Of course, if the spammers send mail pretending to be from your customers through your smarthosts none of that will help you.) Cheers, Ste

Re: [mailop] Anyone from GitHub here?

2019-03-06 Thread Steve Atkins
ers you've used in your git repo - are in your git repos, and probably public. (And yes, there are companies who harvest from there). This doesn't really seem particularly related to mail operations, though. Cheers, Steve ___ mailop maili

Re: [mailop] Salesforce (nee ExactTarget) (and others) use of List-ID

2019-02-21 Thread Steve Atkins
lists. Also some spam with random-ish values in the header. I have a sieve rule for each mailing list that identifies it based on the List-ID value and routes it to the right mailbox - you'll likely want to do the same. It's a few seconds of work each time I sign up for a mailing li

Re: [mailop] emailreg.org is down

2019-01-10 Thread Steve Atkins
Rob, Jim ... None of this is particularly related to mail ops. Cheers, Steve ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] emailreg.org is down

2019-01-08 Thread Steve Atkins
gi?p=register It's a slightly off-the-books service run by Barracuda, or at least by Barracuda employees. If you're listed by Barracuda, and if emailreg.org exists, it's likely worth doing. But it's unlikely to affect anything othe

Re: [mailop] Fwd: Looks like we'll be seeing a big breach notification surge...

2018-12-01 Thread Steve Dodd
On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 at 01:49, Michael Wise via mailop wrote: > > > /grr… > > Why are all my replies only going to the original author of late? > > > I believe it's the way the mailing list software handles submissions from DMARC enabled domains - it moves the sender address to Reply-To: then puts

Re: [mailop] freenet.de rejecting with 451 that should be a perm error (suspicious message)

2018-11-15 Thread Steve Atkins
e content, so may be suspicious of URLs in the body. Whether they see more of the same being sent to them, and whether they're coming from the same sources or not, and so on, may change their view of those URLs significantly by the time you retry the delivery attempt. Cheers, St

Re: [mailop] O365 discarding mail after User-Agent change

2018-11-12 Thread Steve Dodd
tings.) Strangely, tests to random helpful people off IRC have been fine. I have to say, based on this experience, I would struggle to recommend O365 to clients (not that I have any these days!) False positives are at least as bad as false negatives :( Steve On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 at 19:10, Michael Wise

Re: [mailop] O365 discarding mail after User-Agent change

2018-11-12 Thread Steve Dodd
ued to fail. Anyway, I'm wondering generally if and how mail software authors - particularly of 'niche' software - can test and discuss interoperability with the big inbox providers. Is such discussion appropriate here? If not, is there another forum? Steve On Fri, 26 Oct 2018 a

Re: [mailop] Microsoft SPF failing our email internally against their own servers

2018-11-08 Thread Steve Dodd
Can't help with this directly, but I've seen similar happen with mail to Facebook, which uses O365.. S. On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 at 12:25, Duncan Brannen wrote: > > > Morning all, > > Does anyone have any issues delivering to some O365 > domains due to Microsoft internally SPF failing

Re: [mailop] What do other ISP / ESP do about the MailChimp spam problem?

2018-11-06 Thread Steve Atkins
H, Digital Ocean, Microsoft (Azure, in particular) and to a slightly lesser extent Google. MailChimp - and other traditional (non-API) ESPs - are there, but mostly lost in the noise. I have found that complaining about spam from ESPs in preference to the much higher volumes of s

Re: [mailop] O365 discarding mail after User-Agent change

2018-10-31 Thread Steve Dodd
erfect, apart from mailing list messages with mangled DKIM or whatever, which are fair game. Anyway, thanks for giving me a few more things to think about! Steve ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] *** SPAM *** Re: O365 discarding mail after User-Agent change

2018-10-31 Thread Steve Dodd
; to randomly drop mail from taxpaying clients. Trying to imagine a parallel world where they randomly blocked phone calls based on an opaque algo applied to the caller-id. Also, if "unusual" user-agents are being scored down, I'd think that might have accessibility / DDA implications

Re: [mailop] *** SPAM *** Re: O365 discarding mail after User-Agent change

2018-10-31 Thread Steve Dodd
I do appreciate this input on this - it's driving me crazy! Not a fan of this modern world with its algorithmic overlords.. Steve ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] O365 discarding mail after User-Agent change

2018-10-31 Thread Steve Dodd
It's been suggested to me off-list that if I mention the recipient domains I am having problems with, it might help. They are: kent.gov.uk seap.org.uk The sender domain is gmail.com. As I said, baffled by how something with valid Gmail DKIM & SPF could be thrown on the floor like thi

[mailop] O365 discarding mail after User-Agent change

2018-10-26 Thread Steve Dodd
aving real problems running my life (O365 seems to be preferred by UK government departments and services.) I have tried sending from a Gandi-hosted domain as well, and having similar issues, even after enabling DKIM. Hints and tips gratefully received... Steve _

Re: [mailop] Expires SSL cert for mailop

2018-10-25 Thread steve
http://chilli.nosignal.org won't be using any cert (: October 26, 2018 4:58 PM, "Doug Barton" wrote: > Y'all might want to be aware that this issue is being discussed on the NANOG > list. In the age of > Let's Encrypt expired TLS certs are a really bad look. > > On 9/12/18 6:24 AM, Matt Gilber

Re: [mailop] including dkim private key as a header?

2018-10-25 Thread Steve Atkins
ey: -BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY- >MIICXAIBAAKBgQC//RGTYFDm7IkGi3fCXW87OPq1Hiy/5Llcb4+vq5D33Qn1zvzP >XNJOUglEyLhDP/uBWVUSIkz/IngcrjEgLYfNYIfv8tYyAvknqeTbMuF1ogoRKWMH > .. That's not good at _all_. iContact are aware of it, and working on it. Cheers, Steve __

Re: [mailop] Preserving signing domain reputation

2018-08-28 Thread Steve Atkins
ile. But if you're not seeing delivery issues today and you're not changing IP addresses, just the d= signing domain, I wouldn't expect much impact from just changing the d=. Trying it with a single MTA would let you see any impact, and dribble the new d= value

Re: [mailop] Is the 3rd-party reporting DMARC record required?

2018-08-14 Thread Steve Atkins
> On Aug 14, 2018, at 3:29 PM, Steve Jones via mailop wrote: > > On 8/14/18, 10:17 AM, "mailop on behalf of Bill Cole" wrote: > >I'm doing a DMARC setup for a client and for the first time need to >point the 'rua' value to an address in a dom

Re: [mailop] Is the 3rd-party reporting DMARC record required?

2018-08-14 Thread Steve Jones via mailop
revious legal regime in the EU, had it been known. However now that GDPR is in force, I would think that should be considerable additional incentive for report senders to correct this situation ASAP. Happy to chat with report generators if something about this doesn't make sense to them.

Re: [mailop] DKIM headers - which do you sign and why?

2018-07-28 Thread Steve Atkins
>> considered outrageous.../0 would be more so. > > Anyone that uses include:spf.protection.outlook.com will have imported > ip4:52.100.0.0/14 and ip4:40.92.0.0/14 That's fairly normal, particularly for vanity domains or small business domains that host their email with

Re: [mailop] DKIM headers - which do you sign and why?

2018-07-24 Thread Steve Atkins
I've seen reports that at least one large ISP who'd otherwise send you reports didn't if you sprinkled things like "!10m" into your email address. I don't recall who, but it's probably worth removing. Cheers, Steve ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] DKIM headers - which do you sign and why?

2018-07-23 Thread Steve Atkins
ons. Weakening it's guarantees *for those senders* mitigates that damage. It also *strengthens* DMARC for other senders, those using it legitimately, as it reduces the number of recipient mailbox providers who stop enforcing DMARC because it breaks delivery of legitimate email. Cheers, Stev

Re: [mailop] Is GDPR the end of Whois?

2018-07-20 Thread Steve Atkins
ells even a whiff of deception, don't turn the customer up until a more senior staffer with an abuse focus has looked at the account. Cheers, Steve > > > Comments very welcome, > -- > > ORLANDO LETRA > SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR > > M +351 934 909 316 > T +

Re: [mailop] Verification of Microsoft 4.7.0 protocol error

2018-06-29 Thread Steve Atkins
ng > transmission channel. [xxx.eop-EUR01.prod.protection.outlook.com]" > > could be / is a volume related error? > It looks more like you got out of sync, sent out of order commands or ignored previous errors and the far end gave up on you. What comes before that error? Cheers,

Re: [mailop] News about the travails with my famous Y! trap account

2018-06-19 Thread Steve Atkins
wasn't unusual to configure the separator to be - instead of + because of all the web forms that didn't handle escaping properly and would record "steve+...@blighty.com" as "steve f...@blighty.com". Cheers, Steve ___

Re: [mailop] Should mail servers publish IPv6 MX records? Could this harm your spam filtering?

2018-06-10 Thread Steve Atkins
e.net IN MX 0 . Nice. It's been listed in a few best practice documents as well as RFC 7505 for more than a few years. Good to see it getting some traction. Cheers, Steve ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Should mail servers publish IPv6 MX records? Could this harm your spam filtering?

2018-06-06 Thread Steve Atkins
between legitimate users and spammers. And, to wander back to the topic, the majority of spam I see on IPv6 comes from those sorts of provider. Cheers, Steve ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Should mail servers publish IPv6 MX records? Could this harm your spam filtering?

2018-06-06 Thread Steve Atkins
ase he's discussing the spam would have been blocked if they'd had better spam filtering in place. Cheers, Steve ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] sectoor TOR blacklist

2018-06-06 Thread Steve Atkins
> On Jun 6, 2018, at 9:13 AM, Vsevolod Stakhov wrote: > > On 06/06/2018 16:55, Steve Atkins wrote: >> >> >> IPv4 blacklists will always list 127.0.0.2 and never 127.0.0.1. >> IPv6 blacklists will always list :::7F00:2 and never :::7F00:1. >> D

Re: [mailop] Disabling TLS1.0 for SMTP

2018-05-22 Thread Steve Atkins
yption and sending as plaintext. TLS 1.0 has it's flaws, but it's better than entirely unencrypted. (If the flaws in TLS 1.0 were really an issue for your use case then you'd drop the connection and bounce the mail if the remote host didn't support TLS 1.1

Re: [mailop] Since it seems to be spam discussion day on MailOp, SparkHost compromised lists..

2018-05-09 Thread Steve Atkins
sin/MailingLists The SpamCop forums http://forum.spamcop.net As always, read the FAQs and lurk for a while after subscribing. For some reason antispam hobbyists tend to be jumpier than most about mailing list etiquette ... Cheers, Steve ___ mailo

Re: [mailop] Since it seems to be spam discussion day on MailOp, SparkHost compromised lists..

2018-05-09 Thread Steve Atkins
It is never spam discussion day on MailOp, unless it's operationally relevant to email. If it's not, like this, maybe take it to the spam or messaging abuse focused lists, some of which I'm sure you're on or reach out to the relevant company directly? Cheers, Steve >

Re: [mailop] Microsoft Contact

2018-04-30 Thread Steve Atkins
the invalid headers in different ways. Invalid headers correlate fairly strongly with spam and malware mail, though, so I'm not surprised that some of your mail is going missing. You should quote your display-name as you send it out - "recipie...@gmail.com" - and everythin

Re: [mailop] Migrating to new IPs?

2018-04-30 Thread Steve Atkins
ill as we aren't > an ESB, just ordinary (small) email lists and aliases with a few monthly > mass mailing (<10K lists). With that little traffic it's possible that you're not big enough to have much of a reputation most places, so it may not be much of an actual issue. Cheers, Steve ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Received header address information

2018-04-21 Thread Steve Atkins
ar that’s compatible with what was previously common use, maybe?) Cheers, Steve ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Received header address information

2018-04-18 Thread Steve Atkins
ress-literal = "[" ( IPv4-address-literal / IPv6-address-literal / General-address-literal ) "]" Cheers, Steve ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

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