Re: [mailop] Help with a header.

2017-09-28 Thread Jim Cheetham
Excerpts from Grant Taylor via mailop's message of September 29, 2017 4:35 pm: On Sep 28, 2017, at 8:25 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Bounce feature in pine / elm / mutt Wouldn't a bounce to back to the original sender? Nope, different usage of the same word... http://www.mutt.org/doc/m

[mailop] Any Bluehost contacts?

2016-11-29 Thread Jim Cheetham
Hi, is there a contact from Bluehost.com available here? I'm having difficulty determining the cause of a blacklisting that they're applying to us. -- Jim Cheetham, Information Security, University of Otago, Dunedin, N.Z. ✉ jim.cheet...@otago.ac.nz☏ +64 3 470 4670☏ m +64 21

Re: [mailop] Recommendations for max limits on header, for a receiving server

2016-11-02 Thread Jim Cheetham
Two more data points : Symantec Messaging Gateway (aka Brightmail): >32KB gets marked as spam, https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH140343.html Exchange 2007: 64KB Exchange 2010: 64KB Exchange 2013: 128KB -- Jim Cheetham, Information Security, University of Otago, Dunedin, N.Z

Re: [mailop] Recommendations for max limits on header, for a receiving server

2016-11-01 Thread Jim Cheetham
Quoting ml+mai...@esmtp.org (2016-11-02 14:53:11) > On Wed, Nov 02, 2016, Jim Cheetham wrote: > > > On the face of that, I'm going to recommend raising our > > MaxHeadersLength from 32768 to 262114 in the current production > > servers, and to 1MB for the next iter

Re: [mailop] Recommendations for max limits on header, for a receiving server

2016-11-01 Thread Jim Cheetham
Quoting Jim Cheetham (2016-11-01 16:02:29) > We run our listening mail servers with a maximum header size limit of 32768 > (Sendmail's default). Thanks to the responders showing different limits, reminding me to RTFM and check the default configs of some other products :-) In

[mailop] Recommendations for max limits on header, for a receiving server

2016-10-31 Thread Jim Cheetham
ty whether you see that 32KB max header size as a sensible limit in today's conditions? -- Jim Cheetham, Information Security, University of Otago, Dunedin, N.Z. ✉ jim.cheet...@otago.ac.nz☏ +64 3 470 4670☏ m +64 21 279 4670 ⚷ OpenPGP: B50F BE3B D49B 3A8A 9CC3 8966 937

Re: [mailop] Cisco PIX Mailguard Oddity

2016-05-05 Thread Jim Cheetham
e folks if you've ever seen > anything like this​ from one of these, and what it means for their > configuration? I mean, is this a common bug/misconfiguration, or have I > just hit the lottery? > > Thanks. > -- Jim Cheetham, Information Security,

Re: [mailop] Any Proofpoint contacts here?

2016-04-14 Thread Jim Cheetham
when we got dsn=500 from Proofpoint we noticed the issue, and requested delisting. This went through, then our queued items got delivered, triggering a repeat listing, and confusion at my end. -- Jim Cheetham, Information Security, University of Otago, Dunedin, N.Z. ✉ jim.cheet...@otago.ac.nz

Re: [mailop] Any Proofpoint contacts here?

2016-04-14 Thread Jim Cheetham
es, we had had a compromised account, and we had addressed it before the block became obvious. The feedback loop to the sending IPs is the problem, common to so many other reputation providers. -- Jim Cheetham, Information Security, University of Otago, Dunedin, N.Z. ✉ jim.cheet...@otago.ac.nz

[mailop] Any Proofpoint contacts here?

2016-04-13 Thread Jim Cheetham
an't see any way to raise this issue. So a contact from Proofpoint would be welcome ... :-) -- Jim Cheetham, Information Security, University of Otago, Dunedin, N.Z. ✉ jim.cheet...@otago.ac.nz☏ +64 3 470 4670☏ m +64 21 279 4670 ⚷ OpenPGP: B50F BE3B D49B 3A8A 9CC3 8966 9374 82CD C982 06

Re: [mailop] Managing reputation of a mailman list host

2015-05-06 Thread Jim Cheetham
Excerpts from Jonas Wielicki's message of 2015-05-06 18:33:44 +1200: > The immediate reports contain the original message as full attachment, > which sometimes lets a moderators MSP reject the mail as spam. This is > unfortunate, because it both harms moderation and possibly my servers > reputation