Re: [mailop] Delivery to btinternet.com / cpcloud.co.uk

2015-09-15 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 01:05:28PM -0400, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > That's part of it, sure. But having working RFC 2152 role addresses, RFC 2142, sorry for the typo. ---rsk ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/lis

Re: [mailop] Delivery to btinternet.com / cpcloud.co.uk

2015-09-14 Thread Johann Klasek
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 01:05:28PM -0400, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 08:47:25AM -0700, Michael Peddemors wrote: > > While you are absolutely right that network operators and email > > server operators should be the place that the majority of the work > > is done (at the source),

Re: [mailop] Delivery to btinternet.com / cpcloud.co.uk

2015-09-14 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 08:47:25AM -0700, Michael Peddemors wrote: > While you are absolutely right that network operators and email > server operators should be the place that the majority of the work > is done (at the source), (egress filtering, blocking DUL traffic to > Port 25 et al), and simpl

Re: [mailop] Delivery to btinternet.com / cpcloud.co.uk

2015-09-14 Thread Ian Eiloart
> On 10 Sep 2015, at 08:23, Brandon Long wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Robert Mueller wrote: > >> We don't recommend doing that: >> >> https://support.google.com/mail/answer/175365 >> >> If you are forwarding mail, you'll inevitably forward spam, and you don't >> want your r

Re: [mailop] Delivery to btinternet.com / cpcloud.co.uk

2015-09-14 Thread Ian Eiloart
> On 10 Sep 2015, at 12:45, Robert Mueller wrote: > >> >> Ok, just to confirm, does this mean you don't recommend or recognise SRS >> rewritten MAIL FROM addresses as special in any way? >> >> Does anyone understand SRS? I thought it was pretty much a dead end. > > IMHO everything about

Re: [mailop] Delivery to btinternet.com / cpcloud.co.uk

2015-09-10 Thread Dave Warren
On 2015-09-10 06:58, John Levine wrote: SRS was mostly useful as an exercise to confirm that the world is not going to completely change how it works just because the FUSSP du jour can't describe the way it's been sending mail for 30 years. Personally, I'd r

Re: [mailop] Delivery to btinternet.com / cpcloud.co.uk

2015-09-10 Thread Dave Warren
On 2015-09-10 04:45, Robert Mueller wrote: Is there any evidence it's been useful in any way to help stop or identify spam? No. But it's moderately good at helping identify when a message is from the sender it claims, and this is useful information. I love that I can give users a one click "

Re: [mailop] Delivery to btinternet.com / cpcloud.co.uk

2015-09-10 Thread Brandon Long
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Gil Bahat wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Brandon Long wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 6:50 AM, John Levine wrote: >> >>> >Does anyone understand SRS? I thought it was pretty much a dead end. >>> >>> It dates from the magic bullet phase

Re: [mailop] Delivery to btinternet.com / cpcloud.co.uk

2015-09-10 Thread Gil Bahat
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Brandon Long wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 6:50 AM, John Levine wrote: > >> >Does anyone understand SRS? I thought it was pretty much a dead end. >> >> It dates from the magic bullet phase of SPF, so yeah. >> >> >The reason we rewrite is so that bounces

Re: [mailop] Delivery to btinternet.com / cpcloud.co.uk

2015-09-10 Thread Michael Peddemors
On 15-09-10 05:13 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: Spam (and all other forms of abuse) is/are best stopped as close to the source as possible: every hop away from there makes the problem harder and pushes the error rate up. Thus the ideal place is*at* the source. This doesn't require SPF or SRS or DKIM

Re: [mailop] Delivery to btinternet.com / cpcloud.co.uk

2015-09-10 Thread John Levine
>IMHO everything about SPF and SRS borders on somewhere between pointless >and craziness. Is there any evidence it's been useful in any way to help >stop or identify spam? A plain SPF '-all' to say this domain sends no mail at all works great. Other than that SPF has been somewhat useful for phis

Re: [mailop] Delivery to btinternet.com / cpcloud.co.uk

2015-09-10 Thread John Levine
>Does anyone understand SRS? I thought it was pretty much a dead end. It dates from the magic bullet phase of SPF, so yeah. >The reason we rewrite is so that bounces come back to us so we can >automatically disable forwarding if the account we're forwarding to goes >away. Well, actually, you're

Re: [mailop] Delivery to btinternet.com / cpcloud.co.uk

2015-09-10 Thread David Hofstee
herlands (ESP) *for large receiving parties on the internet, there are always compromised legitimate sources sending to them. Van: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] Namens Robert Mueller Verzonden: Thursday, September 10, 2015 1:46 PM Aan: Brandon Long CC: mailop Onderwerp: Re: [mailop] Delive

Re: [mailop] Delivery to btinternet.com / cpcloud.co.uk

2015-09-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
> On 10-Sep-2015, at 5:15 PM, Robert Mueller wrote: > > IMHO everything about SPF and SRS borders on somewhere between pointless and > craziness. Thank you. —srs___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/m

Re: [mailop] Delivery to btinternet.com / cpcloud.co.uk

2015-09-10 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 09:45:40PM +1000, Robert Mueller wrote: > IMHO everything about SPF and SRS borders on somewhere between pointless > and craziness. Is there any evidence it's been useful in any way to help > stop or identify spam? No. SPF was announced by an ignorant newbie with this gran

Re: [mailop] Delivery to btinternet.com / cpcloud.co.uk

2015-09-10 Thread Robert Mueller
>> Ok, just to confirm, does this mean you don't recommend or recognise >> SRS rewritten MAIL FROM addresses as special in any way? > > Does anyone understand SRS?  I thought it was pretty much a dead end. IMHO everything about SPF and SRS borders on somewhere between pointless and craziness. Is

Re: [mailop] Delivery to btinternet.com / cpcloud.co.uk

2015-09-09 Thread Robert Mueller
> Segregating it onto its own IP which is clearly named - like > forwarder.fastmail.fm - would be a very good idea. FYI, we already do this. I think Bron got a bit sidetracked into this, because the delays were mostly our out "outgoing mail" IPs, not on our "forwarded mail" IPs. -- Rob Mueller

Re: [mailop] Delivery to btinternet.com / cpcloud.co.uk

2015-09-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
> On 10-Sep-2015, at 3:22 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > We have SPF records. The problem is that our customers can set up > sieve rules to forward any mail at all, so we can't guarantee that SPF > will always pass. If you aren’t treating forwarded mail like it has leprosy, you really ought to.

Re: [mailop] Delivery to btinternet.com / cpcloud.co.uk

2015-09-09 Thread Robert Mueller
> We don't recommend doing that: > > https://support.google.com/mail/answer/175365 > > If you are forwarding mail, you'll inevitably forward spam, and you > don't want your reputation to take a hit on that. > > Or, damned if you do, damned if you don't. Ok, just to confirm, does this mean you don

Re: [mailop] Delivery to btinternet.com / cpcloud.co.uk

2015-09-09 Thread Franck Martin
Best is to ensure in a clean forward that the DKIM signature does not get broken. But yes forwarded emails should go via anti-spam filters too. On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Brandon Long wrote: > We don't recommend doing that: > > https://support.google.com/mail/answer/175365 > > If you are fo

Re: [mailop] Delivery to btinternet.com / cpcloud.co.uk

2015-09-09 Thread Dave Warren
On 2015-09-09 14:52, Bron Gondwana wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2015, at 05:23, Cedric Knight wrote: >Plus I got a kind response from stevepostmas...@btinternet.com, >suggesting any SPF record (eg softfail or neutral) would reduce number >of SPF fails, or delays. We have SPF records. The problem is

Re: [mailop] Delivery to btinternet.com / cpcloud.co.uk

2015-09-09 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015, at 05:23, Cedric Knight wrote: > Plus I got a kind response from Steve postmas...@btinternet.com, > suggesting any SPF record (eg softfail or neutral) would reduce number > of SPF fails, or delays. We have SPF records. The problem is that our customers can set up sieve rules

Re: [mailop] Delivery to btinternet.com / cpcloud.co.uk

2015-09-09 Thread Franck Martin
I have seen weird emails coming from that IP: 65.20.0.49 Anyone has a contact there? On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Cedric Knight wrote: > Hi > > Is anyone else seeing problems delivering to recipients > @btinternet.com, @btopenworld.com and @talk21.com ? We've been seeing > the following to

Re: [mailop] Delivery to btinternet.com / cpcloud.co.uk

2015-09-09 Thread Cedric Knight
Summary from 25 July: three causes of deferral sending to mx.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk (btopenworld.com etc) 1) "421 Too many messages (1.5.6.1)" (after MAIL FROM) 2) server dropping connection (while sending RCPT TO) 3) "451 System policy engine error" (after end of DATA section) On Wed, 09 Sep 2015

Re: [mailop] Delivery to btinternet.com / cpcloud.co.uk

2015-09-09 Thread Bron Gondwana
Did you ever hear back from them? I've had a little bit of response, but I still have a queue full of emails which aren't moving. It kinda sucks for my customers to have their emails hanging for days. https://community.bt.com/t5/Email/BT-email-accounts-rejecting-emails-we-send-on-behalf-of-our

[mailop] Delivery to btinternet.com / cpcloud.co.uk

2015-07-24 Thread Cedric Knight
Hi Is anyone else seeing problems delivering to recipients @btinternet.com, @btopenworld.com and @talk21.com ? We've been seeing the following to some extent since BT moved its email outsourcing from Yahoo to Critical Path, but it seems to be getting worse if anything. All these destinations are