[mailop] Good registrar?

2024-10-02 Thread Otto J. Makela via mailop
It seems Gandi has been hiking their prices rather significantly. Do you have recommendations for a good domain registrar which still keeps prices at a reasonable level, and also isn't a problematic spammer/scammer haven? The latter criteria removes at least OVH, and perhaps also Joker, or are t

[mailop] Incoming spam from outlook.com

2023-12-15 Thread Otto J. Makela via mailop
This week, we've been getting quite a lot of carefully forged spam from outlook.com addressess, fully using their email infrastructure. What is your experience, is there point in putting effort into reporting it? Received: from smtp1.csc.fi (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by loc

[mailop] Microsoft's block list?

2023-11-22 Thread Otto J. Makela via mailop
Can someone shed light on a Microsoft/Outlook block list? Our hobby server (on upcloud.com) seem to have been blocked for quite some time now. At this time, SPF and DKIM should be correct for our outgoing messages. Is there anything to be done, apart from switching to some mail sender company ins

Re: [mailop] outlook.com 421 try again later S77719

2023-10-12 Thread Otto J. Makela via mailop
On 10/11/23 12:12, Andreas via mailop wrote: since a few hours we have problems with sending to Microsoft. We get hundreds of messages like in the subject with the reference to S77719. Also colleagues from other companies in germany are seeing the same in their logs. All mails that are blocked h

Re: [mailop] ANY OVH Contact?

2023-08-09 Thread Otto J. Makela via mailop
On 8/8/23 18:44, Anne Mitchell via mailop wrote: Does anyone have *any* contact at OVH? Reports to abuse@, and through the abuse page, have yielded nothing for this very unrepentant spammer. :-( Unless the situation has dramatically changed in the last year, OVH has no functioning abuse team.

Re: [mailop] Send emails over O365 to Google with a specific domain are rejected

2023-08-09 Thread Otto J. Makela via mailop
On 8/7/23 03:06, Al Iverson via mailop wrote: If MS is using IPv6 to send the mail to Google, you might be in an extra difficult spot. Not everybody agrees/believes this, but in my experience Gmail is more quick to block IPv6-sent mail; they're more stringent about what they might let through ve

Re: [mailop] Anyone else seeing email backed up to Microsoft -- only IPv6

2022-10-27 Thread Otto J. Makela via mailop
On 25/10/2022 17.40, Frank Bulk via mailop wrote: We had it last night, too, but this morning seeing it again for hotmail.com, outlook.com, and live.com: Same here, with also the country-specific hotmail/live domains and msn.com (hardly surprisingly, as they are on the same servers). My tempor

Re: [mailop] Feedback loops (was: The oligopoly has won.)

2022-09-14 Thread Otto J. Makela via mailop
On 13/09/2022 02.44, Brandon Long via mailop wrote: Most of the major mailbox providers do have other feedback loops, many based on ARF, that can be used for this... Has anyone put together a good summary of available feedback loops, specially from big players? -- /* * * Otto J. Makela * *

Re: [mailop] gmail changes today?

2022-06-09 Thread Otto J. Makela via mailop
On 08/06/2022 21.25, Brandon Long via mailop wrote: so the false positive rate for the new rule is better. It doesn't even need to be a new rule, maybe your reputation just decreased slightly and it now is below the threshold. I know of a couple of similar cases -- to me it seems Google's Bay

Re: [mailop] [E] MacOS Contacts and automatically collected email addresses

2021-11-09 Thread Otto J. Makela via mailop
On 05/11/2021 16.18, Marcel Becker via mailop wrote: Now it's quite possible that other contact sources you have configured on our Mac are in fact doing what you are describing. (ie If you have Google Contacts configured and Google might be doing interesting things). Also note that Apple Contact

[mailop] MacOS Contacts and automatically collected email addresses

2021-11-05 Thread Otto J. Makela via mailop
This is kinda peripherally connected to mail system operations, but probably still interesting. I've opened a feedback ticket to Apple about the address collecting behavior of the MacOS Contacts application, that causes issues through interaction with their other products Mac Mail and Calendar. C

[mailop] Locally hosted anti-spam solution recommendations?

2021-10-20 Thread Otto J. Makela via mailop
We're currently running Roaring Penguin CanIT as our mail frontend, and have been given an end-of-life notice from the new owners: https://go.zixcorp.com/index.php/email/emailWebview?md_id=21715 So, now we're looking for a good frontend with antispam functions. CanIT is a set of open source softw

Re: [mailop] Firefox Phishing Protection says 413: Your client issued a request that was too large.

2021-10-14 Thread Otto J. Makela via mailop
On 14/10/2021 17.31, Al Iverson wrote: > Otto! Long time no talk. Hope you're doing well. :) > > If it's any consolation, Gmail thinks that your post to Mailop is a > phish, so perhaps the bad domain made it to the Google Safe Browsing > blacklist, at least. :) Interestingly enough, I sent the m

[mailop] Firefox Phishing Protection says 413: Your client issued a request that was too large.

2021-10-14 Thread Otto J. Makela via mailop
We received some phising emails, and when you access the phishing site redirector hxxps://googleweblight.com/i?u=sso-webmailsrvr-s334bggbh.pages.dev?user=em...@example.com you will be redirected to a website using such a long URL (about 15k) that when you try to report it to Firefox Phishing Prot

Re: [mailop] SPF prevents enabling IPv4+IPv6?

2021-03-02 Thread Otto J. Makela via mailop
On 02/03/2021 18.28, John R Levine via mailop wrote: > On Tue, 2 Mar 2021, Otto J. Makela wrote: >> I read this as meaning most implementations will let you only have >> two NOERRORs, and then it's game over. As I said, I doubt SPF was >> intended to cause this side effect. > > Hm, missed that, it

Re: [mailop] SPF prevents enabling IPv4+IPv6?

2021-03-02 Thread Otto J. Makela via mailop
On 02/03/2021 10.28, Otto J. Makela via mailop wrote: > Unfortunately, RFC 7208 section 4.6.4 DNS Lookup limits also states: > >As described at the end of Section 11.1, there may be cases where it >is useful to limit the number of "terms" for which DNS querie

Re: [mailop] SPF prevents enabling IPv4+IPv6?

2021-03-02 Thread Otto J. Makela via mailop
On 01/03/2021 18.41, John Levine wrote: > In article <8a937890-bfd7-8ee9-3818-063c12d68...@iki.fi> you write: >> } until match IP address connecting us or error count exceeded >> >> which means the error count very easily gets exceeded if your >> email server uses IPv6 and few (or none) of the

[mailop] SPF prevents enabling IPv4+IPv6?

2021-03-01 Thread Otto J. Makela via mailop
Due to never actually reading the sources, and a careless browsing of the SPF specs, I always assumed the algorithm was something like: retrieve email sender retrieve IP address used to connect to us retrieve & parse appropriate SPF txt record from DNS repeat for ea

Re: [mailop] Protection.outlook.com SPF hoops to jump for IPv6

2020-11-02 Thread Otto J. Makela via mailop
On 27/10/2020 09.54, Otto J. Makela via mailop wrote: > On 23/10/2020 23.42, John Levine wrote: >> In article you write: >>> When sending messages to a *.mail.protection.outlook.com host via IPv6, >>> our mail host gets the following email status: >>> >>&

Re: [mailop] Protection.outlook.com SPF hoops to jump for IPv6

2020-10-27 Thread Otto J. Makela via mailop
On 23/10/2020 23.42, John Levine wrote: > In article you write: >> When sending messages to a *.mail.protection.outlook.com host via IPv6, >> our mail host gets the following email status: >> >> #4.7.26 SMTP; 450 4.7.26 Service does not accept messages sent over IPv6 >> [2001:708:10:6004::22] unle

[mailop] Protection.outlook.com SPF hoops to jump for IPv6

2020-10-23 Thread Otto J. Makela via mailop
We have a customer (Finnish Academy aka.fi) who use our services to send out emails through our server smtp.sdn.csc.fi. Unfortunately, Outlook.com seems to have added more hoops for us to jump through. When sending messages to a *.mail.protection.outlook.com host via IPv6, our mail host gets the f

Re: [mailop] OVH Bulk Mailer? Anyone know this one?

2020-08-05 Thread Otto J. Makela via mailop
On 21/05/2019 12.37, Otto J. Makela via mailop wrote: > Is there any point in receiving any email from any OVH space, > since discussions on this list would seem to indicate they have > no functioning abuse enforcement? > > Numerous netblocks registered to them [...] > se

Re: [mailop] OVH Bulk Mailer? Anyone know this one?

2019-05-21 Thread Otto J. Makela via mailop
Is there any point in receiving any email from any OVH space, since discussions on this list would seem to indicate they have no functioning abuse enforcement? Numerous netblocks registered to them like 51.77.44.64-51.77.44.127 described as "Failover IPs / Legacy" seem to be permanent spammer have