Re: [mailop] BIMI boycott?

2024-01-10 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Andrew C Aitchison via mailop said: >X-Face was too far ahead of its time. Enough of the market did not have >the bandwidth to make it practical, and digitisers/cameras were not >readily available. It was, and it also predated phishing. All of the complication of BIMI comes from

Re: [mailop] Contact for TWC

2024-01-10 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Tarun Singh via mailop said: >Do we have folks from TWC (Time Warner Cable) on this distro? Can you please >reach out to me offline? It was merged into Charter's Spectrum quite a while ago. R's, John ___ mailop mailing list

Re: [mailop] [E] Re: BIMI boycott?

2024-01-10 Thread Marcel Becker via mailop
On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 4:15 PM Brett Schenker via mailop wrote: > so please try again to justify why this is needed > I don't think I have to. The actual reasons and motivations are laid out on that page. And if you try a little harder you can even listen to me talk about it elsewhere on the

Re: [mailop] [E] Re: BIMI boycott?

2024-01-10 Thread Brett Schenker via mailop
I did, not sure there was some major outcry from those who receive email about not seeing logos. Authentication was argued as a reason for this from the start. That reason has been diminished, so please try again to justify why this is needed On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 6:22 PM Marcel Becker via

Re: [mailop] BIMI boycott? Lookup tool, why we publish BIMI anyway, and intellectual property law considerations

2024-01-10 Thread Opti Pub via mailop
+1 On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 6:14 PM Louis Laureys via mailop wrote: > We decided to keep this because I read that some webmail clients are > planning to support BIMI without checking for certificates, or, > perhaps, also displaying a little lock icon in the corner of the > sender's BIMI-style

Re: [mailop] [E] Re: BIMI boycott?

2024-01-10 Thread Marcel Becker via mailop
On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 2:38 PM Brett Schenker wrote: > I've read that, multiple times. > Then I am sure you read everything on that page and not just the first sentence. ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org

Re: [mailop] BIMI boycott? Lookup tool, why we publish BIMI anyway, and intellectual property law considerations

2024-01-10 Thread Louis Laureys via mailop
> We decided to keep this because I read that some webmail clients are > planning to support BIMI without checking for certificates, or, > perhaps, also displaying a little lock icon in the corner of the > sender's BIMI-style logo image where certification is verified. This is exactly what I have

Re: [mailop] BIMI boycott?

2024-01-10 Thread Louis Laureys via mailop
> Simply, nobody needs this. I've been building an email client and actually do fetch avatars and logos to be displayed next to emails. I find it helps me visually identify emails easier, it's a lot less taxing on the brain than reading sender names or addresses. Of course in my case I'm also

Re: [mailop] Email deliverability issues to Outlook

2024-01-10 Thread Bradley Silverman via mailop
That's great to hear Grant! We had no contact from Microsoft for a few days and all of a sudden the issue disappeared, but nobody took credit. I tried to follow up through the tickets that we had, but we were not able to find anyone who would say they did anything, and basically said the issue

Re: [mailop] [E] Re: BIMI boycott?

2024-01-10 Thread Brett Schenker via mailop
I've read that, multiple times. "BIMI promotes authentication, which is instrumental in protecting against some forms of abuse." Cool, Google and Yahoo just made it a necessity for bulk sending which downthread it has been said this is who this is primarily for. So, I ask again, with Google

Re: [mailop] [E] Re: BIMI boycott?

2024-01-10 Thread Marcel Becker via mailop
On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 1:12 PM Brett Schenker via mailop wrote: > Since DMARC is now required by Google and Yahoo for bulk sending, it kind > of makes BIMI not as needed. I'm still not sure what BIMI solves that > enforcing authentication doesn't. > https://bimigroup.org/mailbox-providers/

Re: [mailop] BIMI boycott?

2024-01-10 Thread Brett Schenker via mailop
Since DMARC is now required by Google and Yahoo for bulk sending, it kind of makes BIMI not as needed. I'm still not sure what BIMI solves that enforcing authentication doesn't. On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 3:44 PM Gellner, Oliver via mailop < mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > > > On 10.01.2024 at 17:21

Re: [mailop] BIMI boycott? Lookup tool, why we publish BIMI anyway, and intellectual property law considerations

2024-01-10 Thread Randolf Richardson, Postmaster via mailop
We looked into it and publish our own default BIMI record even though we didn't pay the enormous amount money required to one of two Certificate Authorities. If anyone is curious to see what the record looks, use this command: dig txt

Re: [mailop] BIMI boycott?

2024-01-10 Thread Gellner, Oliver via mailop
> On 10.01.2024 at 17:21 Olga Fischer via mailop wrote: > > Many bigger mailers are blogging about BIMI. > As far as I see its exclusively for brands. > It has 2 big barriers for entry: > - Expensive bespoke cert oids > - Registered trademark logos > > As from my perspective of independent

[mailop] Contact for TWC

2024-01-10 Thread Tarun Singh via mailop
Hello All, Do we have folks from TWC (Time Warner Cable) on this distro? Can you please reach out to me offline? Thanks -Tarun ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] [E] Re: BIMI boycott?

2024-01-10 Thread Marcel Becker via mailop
On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 9:34 AM Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop wrote: > NOBODY NEEDS THESE IMAGES. > You are certainly entitled to that opinion. But what do we really need? Quite a philosophical question... -- Marcel ___ mailop mailing list

Re: [mailop] BIMI boycott?

2024-01-10 Thread Andrew C Aitchison via mailop
On Wed, 10 Jan 2024, Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop wrote: As the OP has written, the only ones that may be interested in this may be marketers. Nobody else needs any logos, avatars etc. displayed alongside the email headers. There is a reason why the early attempt at this - I'm talking about the

Re: [mailop] [E] BIMI boycott?

2024-01-10 Thread Marcel Becker via mailop
On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 8:20 AM Olga Fischer via mailop wrote: > > How will common platforms show user2user? > Will they use platform logos? No logos? > BIMI is for organizational logos. Personal avatars and profile pictures are for people. It's really simple. -- Marcel

Re: [mailop] BIMI boycott?

2024-01-10 Thread Andrew C Aitchison via mailop
On Wed, 10 Jan 2024, Olga Fischer via mailop wrote: Hi mailops, I am new here because I want to collect some opinion. Many bigger mailers are blogging about BIMI. As far as I see its exclusively for brands. It has 2 big barriers for entry: - Expensive bespoke cert oids - Registered trademark

Re: [mailop] BIMI boycott?

2024-01-10 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop
Dnia 10.01.2024 o godz. 11:32:36 Seth Blank via mailop pisze: > The hope is that as BIMI gets more widely adopted, the cost (and > automation) of the logo validation drops. Time will tell. > > Of course, for broader adoption, we also need to progress beyond > trademarks, which have their own cost

Re: [mailop] BIMI boycott?

2024-01-10 Thread Seth Blank via mailop
It's not a money grabbing scheme. Validation of the logo requires human effort today, so there's a real cost involved. It's also relatively new, so at its most expensive. The hope is that as BIMI gets more widely adopted, the cost (and automation) of the logo validation drops. Time will tell. Of

[mailop] BIMI boycott?

2024-01-10 Thread Olga Fischer via mailop
Hi mailops, I am new here because I want to collect some opinion. Many bigger mailers are blogging about BIMI. As far as I see its exclusively for brands. It has 2 big barriers for entry: - Expensive bespoke cert oids - Registered trademark logos As from my perspective of independent mailing

Re: [mailop] Email deliverability issues to Outlook

2024-01-10 Thread Grant Gordon via mailop
Hi All, We finally got this resolved on our side. From the tech that eventually managed to get it sorted: As for the correct process, annoyingly this is only possible internally, there's no customer facing portal where you are able to request domain delisting in this way. If this does come