[mailop] mail.com false positives on outgoing mail?

2019-06-12 Thread Ken Johnson via mailop
One of the users I support uses a mail.com account for cataloging work for Project Gutenberg (PG). [If you do not know, PG is an online library of free e-books that are out of copyright in the US.] This user has observed that sending an email that contains a URL causes mail.com to force a passwor

[mailop] Debian lists contact?

2023-09-05 Thread Ken Johnson via mailop
Writing from $dayjob: Is there a contact for the debian.org mailing lists listening? From time to time I have found it useful to post questions at debian-u...@lists.debian.org. My most recent post was 14 August 2023, and can be seen here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/08/msg00424.

Re: [mailop] Debian lists contact?

2023-09-06 Thread Ken Johnson via mailop
> You'll find list maintainer contact information in the "list > maintenance" section of: Thank you for pointing this out. I am somewhat embarrassed to have overlooked that. Ken ___ mailop mailing list mailo

Re: [mailop] Amazon SES using SAME sender Domain for multiple customer?

2023-09-25 Thread Ken Johnson via mailop
I have been using this Spamassassin rule header LOCAL_AZNSES ALL =~ /amazonses\.com/i score LOCAL_AZNSES 6 describeLOCAL_AZNSES Amazon mailer for over a year now, and have only needed to make one exception. My experience may be atypical, and your mileage may vary, of course. K

[mailop] Amazon SES [Was: is warming IPs still necessary?]

2024-03-26 Thread Ken Johnson via mailop
Here, I have seen a gradual improvement in the quality of mail (now seeing a few legitimate users) coming from Amazon SES (based on headers containing amazonses.com), and now only add +3 in our local SpamAssassin filters. Of course, other people's experience is certain to be different from ours

Re: [mailop] Cloud hosts for responsible mail servers?

2024-07-09 Thread Ken Johnson via mailop
Opinion based on personal experience follows: I would not choose Amazon SES because of the poor content quality (spam, phishing, etc.) of many messages received here where the header contains the string "amazonses.com". That string in the header gets a +3.0 spamassassin bonus on the server I m

Re: [mailop] Cloud hosts for responsible mail servers?

2024-07-09 Thread Ken Johnson via mailop
-Original Message- From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of mailop@mailop.org Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2024 5:32 PM To: kjohn...@eclypse.org Cc: mailop@mailop.org Subject: Re: [mailop] Cloud hosts for responsible mail servers? On 2024-07-10 05:43, Ken Johnson via

[mailop] Deliverability issues _from_ us.af.mil?

2019-11-18 Thread Ken Johnson via mailop
Has anyone else seen deliverability issues _from_ us.af.mil in the last 10 days? If so, have you fixed it? We have received out-of-band reports that email sent to us gets bounced back by the us.af.mil server. No evidence of a HELO or EHLO reaching our server. Obviously it might be interesting t

Re: [mailop] Deliverability issues _from_ us.af.mil?

2019-11-18 Thread Ken Johnson via mailop
I was contacted off-list by a very helpful person in Air Force Communications. It appears, for now, that the problem is specific to the site I support. Regards, Ken -Original Message- From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of Ken Johnson via mailop Sent: Monday

[mailop] sbcgobal.net/prodigy.net misconfigured server?

2021-07-19 Thread Ken Johnson via mailop
An email I tried to send there returned with: : host al-ip4-mx-vip2.prodigy.net[144.160.235.144] said: 550 5.7.1 Connections not accepted from servers without a valid sender domain.alph752 Fix reverse DNS for 173.228.157.53 (in reply to MAIL FROM command) For me, a reverse lookup on

[mailop] Corrupt plain text email

2021-09-02 Thread Ken Johnson via mailop
I recently needed to send a software key to a remote colleague who needed to reinstall some commercial software after re-installing Windows. However, after the key failed to authorize, an investigation determined that the key was corrupt in the email he received from me. The first line of the key

Re: [mailop] Corrupt plain text email

2021-09-02 Thread Ken Johnson via mailop
y users about sending data to be used by programs as plain text email. Changing the email client is way outside my pay grade. Thanks again, Ken -Original Message- From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of Ken Johnson via mailop Sent: Thursday, September 02,