Re: [mailop] Sender MX pointing to *.registrar-servers.com => 100% Spam!

2017-08-31 Thread Bill Cole
On 31 Aug 2017, at 11:35, Paul Smith wrote: On 31/08/2017 16:15, Benoit Panizzon wrote: Strange, todays active domain is: apparty.bid apparty.bid descriptive text "v=spf1 ip4: -all" We do check SPF, so why did this email pass? Is 'ip4:' equivalent to the whole IPv4 space? No, that's an inv

Re: [mailop] Sender MX pointing to *.registrar-servers.com => 100% Spam!

2017-08-31 Thread xyTel Lists via mailop
Adding to this, I've received the same emails over the last few weeks. I've been able to filter by increasing the SpamAssassin points of pyzor and failing rDNS, because otherwise this spam isn't setting off any flags. I'm curious Benoit, did the emails stop on 8/24, then resume on 8/30 for you a

Re: [mailop] Sender MX pointing to *.registrar-servers.com => 100% Spam!

2017-08-31 Thread Luis E. Muñoz via mailop
On 31 Aug 2017, at 9:36, Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: On 08/31/2017 09:32 AM, Luis E. Muñoz via mailop wrote: I believe they misspelled "v=spf1 -all" Why would a spammer purposely use a SPF record that states that no email is sent? That seems like it would be the exact opposite of the ve

[mailop] Is Hotmail being increasingly difficult?

2017-08-31 Thread Allen Kevorkov via mailop
Fine ladies and gentlemen of the email world, Is anyone noticing MS being particularly temperamental lately? I think it's a known fact that MS is not fond new IPs. At least from my experience, a new dedicated IP takes weeks to go 'green' and initial open rates can be quite sad, however, what I'm

Re: [mailop] Sender MX pointing to *.registrar-servers.com => 100% Spam!

2017-08-31 Thread Grant Taylor via mailop
On 08/31/2017 09:32 AM, Luis E. Muñoz via mailop wrote: I believe they misspelled "v=spf1 -all" Why would a spammer purposely use a SPF record that states that no email is sent? That seems like it would be the exact opposite of the very thing they want to do. Is this some sort of techniqu

Re: [mailop] amusing dns failure, pgsurveying.com

2017-08-31 Thread Carl Byington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, 2017-08-31 at 12:00 +0200, David Hofstee wrote: > Interesting setup. What do you mean by 'clever'? Because I am not sure > what this setup will gain them. Sorry, that was a bit of snark. This setup gains them nothing - but it does randomly b

Re: [mailop] Sender MX pointing to *.registrar-servers.com => 100% Spam!

2017-08-31 Thread Paul Smith
On 31/08/2017 16:15, Benoit Panizzon wrote: Strange, todays active domain is: apparty.bid apparty.bid descriptive text "v=spf1 ip4: -all" We do check SPF, so why did this email pass? Is 'ip4:' equivalent to the whole IPv4 space? No, that's an invalid rule. Maybe your SPF checker is letting m

Re: [mailop] Sender MX pointing to *.registrar-servers.com => 100% Spam!

2017-08-31 Thread Luis E. Muñoz via mailop
On 31 Aug 2017, at 8:15, Benoit Panizzon wrote: > Hi Stefano > >> From my data I'd say that those MX are MX for PARKED domains at >> namecheap (I logged more than 1000 domains using that MX and randomly >> checking some of them, they are parked domains). >> >> I guess it can be safe to drop incomi

Re: [mailop] Sender MX pointing to *.registrar-servers.com => 100% Spam!

2017-08-31 Thread Benoit Panizzon
Hi Stefano > From my data I'd say that those MX are MX for PARKED domains at > namecheap (I logged more than 1000 domains using that MX and randomly > checking some of them, they are parked domains). > > I guess it can be safe to drop incoming email from a parked domain. Strange, todays active d

Re: [mailop] Sender MX pointing to *.registrar-servers.com => 100% Spam!

2017-08-31 Thread Paul Smith
On 31/08/2017 15:20, Benoit Panizzon wrote: Now I found one thing in common to those spam mails. All of them point to MX Records from: eforward1.registrar-servers.com. to eforward5.registrar-servers.com. run by a registrar service. Interestingly not the same used to register the domains in ques

Re: [mailop] Sender MX pointing to *.registrar-servers.com => 100% Spam!

2017-08-31 Thread Stefano Bagnara
On 31 August 2017 at 16:20, Benoit Panizzon wrote: > Hello > > Since a couple of days we get a lot of spam from randomly changing > domains under gtld bid. faith. website. loan. to name a couple. > > Now I found one thing in common to those spam mails. All of them point > to MX Records from: > > e

[mailop] Sender MX pointing to *.registrar-servers.com => 100% Spam!

2017-08-31 Thread Benoit Panizzon
Hello Since a couple of days we get a lot of spam from randomly changing domains under gtld bid. faith. website. loan. to name a couple. Now I found one thing in common to those spam mails. All of them point to MX Records from: eforward1.registrar-servers.com. to eforward5.registrar-servers.com.

Re: [mailop] amusing dns failure, pgsurveying.com

2017-08-31 Thread David Hofstee
Hi Carl, Interesting setup. What do you mean by 'clever'? Because I am not sure what this setup will gain them. Yours, David On 30 August 2017 at 18:55, Carl Byington wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > If you do much work in email / spam control, you end up seeing