Mojibake alert [Was: Advice sought on how to convince irresponsible Megapath ISP]

2014-08-18 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 07:37:36 -0700, Linda Walsh sa-u...@tlinx.org wrote: Karsten Brmojibake elided/ wrote: In addition to other problems with your posts (which experts here have already pointed out), your scripts clearly do not handle non-ASCII emails well, as you have completely mangled

Re: Mojibake alert [Was: Advice sought on how to convince irresponsible Megapath ISP]

2014-08-18 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 8/18/2014 2:39 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: Karsten Brmojibake elided/ wrote: Karsten is a bit of mutated character (http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake) :-)

Re: Advice sought on how to convince irresponsible Megapath ISP.

2014-08-18 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/16/2014 12:08 AM, Linda A. Walsh wrote: The start of filtering out spam is filtering out mail that doesn't have a valid return address -- it's not valid email. I'm stuck because my ISP won't filter it out, I have to download it to find out that it's invalid, then local sendmail rejects it,

Re: Advice sought on how to convince irresponsible Megapath ISP.

2014-08-18 Thread jdebert
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 19:06:21 -0700 Linda A. Walsh sa-u...@tlinx.org wrote: My old email service was bought out by Megapath who is letting alot of services slide. [snip] Any ideas on how to get a cheapo-doesn't want to support anything ISP to start blocking all the garbage the pass on?

Re: Advice sought on how to convince irresponsible Megapath ISP.

2014-08-17 Thread Linda Walsh
Karsten Br�� wrote: Similarly, your scripts do not reject messages, but choose not to fetch them. === No... fetchmail fetches them, sendmail rejects them because they don't have a resolvable domain. My sorting and spamassassin scripts get called after the

Re: Advice sought on how to convince irresponsible Megapath ISP.

2014-08-17 Thread Antony Stone
On Sunday 17 August 2014 at 16:37:36 (EU time), Linda Walsh wrote: No... fetchmail fetches them, sendmail rejects them because they don't have a resolvable domain. My sorting and spamassassin scripts get called after the email makes it through sendmail. My scripts don't see the email.

Re: Advice sought on how to convince irresponsible Megapath ISP.

2014-08-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
On 8/15/2014 9:08 PM, Linda A. Walsh wrote: I was wondering if anyone had any experience in showing their ISP the light... Oh well Linda, is your email domain tlinx.org? I'm assuming that it is because there is an under construction web page on that domain and I cannot imagine a

Re: Advice sought on how to convince irresponsible Megapath ISP.

2014-08-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
On 8/17/2014 7:37 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: Karsten Br�� wrote: Similarly, your scripts do not reject messages, but choose not to fetch them. === No... fetchmail fetches them, sendmail rejects them because they don't have a resolvable domain. My sorting and

Re: Advice sought on how to convince irresponsible Megapath ISP.

2014-08-17 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Sun, 2014-08-17 at 07:37 -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Be liberal in what you accept, strict in what you send. In particular, later stages simply must not be less liberal than early stages. Your MX has accepted the message. My ISP's MX has accepted it, because

Re: Advice sought on how to convince irresponsible Megapath ISP.

2014-08-16 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2014-08-15 at 19:06 -0700, Linda A. Walsh wrote: My old email service was bought out by Megapath who is letting alot of services slide. My main issue is that my incoming email scripts follow the SMTP RFC's and if the sender address isn't valid, then it's not a valid email that

Advice sought on how to convince irresponsible Megapath ISP.

2014-08-15 Thread Linda A. Walsh
My old email service was bought out by Megapath who is letting alot of services slide. My main issue is that my incoming email scripts follow the SMTP RFC's and if the sender address isn't valid, then it's not a valid email that should be forwarded. My script simply check for the domain

Re: Advice sought on how to convince irresponsible Megapath ISP.

2014-08-15 Thread Alex
Hi, The only response my ISP will give is to turn on their spam filtering. I tried that. In about a 2 hour time frame, over 400 messages were blocked as spam. Of those less than 10 were actually spam, the rest were from various lists. So having them censoring my incoming mail isn't gonna

Re: Advice sought on how to convince irresponsible Megapath ISP.

2014-08-15 Thread Linda A. Walsh
Alex wrote: Hi, The only response my ISP will give is to turn on their spam filtering. I tried that. In about a 2 hour time frame, over 400 messages were blocked as spam. Of those less than 10 were actually spam, the rest were from various lists. So having them censoring my incoming