Re: [mailop] Any old-school sendmail types here good with the m4?

2023-08-23 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) via mailop
John Levine via mailop writes: > Yeah, we did that. For a while I was ima!jo...@cca.arpa, decorate to > taste to get your mail to CCA. Ah, the precedence wars. Which comes first, the bang or the at? :-) --ihnp4!alberta!ncc!lyndon ___ mailop mailing li

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

2024-07-09 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) via mailop
> With such low volume, you will really struggle to get email delivered to the > larger mailbox providers, whose filtering is largely based on reputation. > It's almost impossible to build up (and maintain) a reputation unless you > can manage at least O(hundreds) of messages to them per day. > Th

Re: [mailop] Request: UTF-8 email address?

2024-07-17 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) via mailop
Can you be a bit more specific about what your needs/requirements are? I recently set up an IDN domain with intent of building an IDN test bed for email. Intially targetting SMTP-related issues, but also for dealing with UTF-8 local mailboxes and addresses on the system. Depending on what you're

Re: [mailop] Best email server for home use...

2022-02-23 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) via mailop
Peter Nicolai Mathias Hansteen via mailop writes: > If you have a reasonable insight into unix things, you could do worse = > than going with OpenBSD and an OpenSMTPD setup along the lines of what = > Aaron Poffenberger describes in his tutorial here: = > https://vdocuments.site/opensmtpd-for-the-

[mailop] blocking t-online.de in OpenSMTPD

2022-10-23 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) via mailop
If you're running OpenSMTPD (such as an OpenBSD system), here's how to return the favour to t-online. In smtpd.conf, before any of your 'listen' statements, add: filter dtag phase mail-from match rdns regex "\.t-online.de$" \ reject "550 5.7.1 you don't accept our mail, so we don't accept

[mailop] Dear sympatico.ca

2023-03-24 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) via mailop
If you are going to block my MTA from sending email to your customers, do us all the favour of preventing your users from sending email to my MTAs in the first place. When they send me mail, but you refuse to let me reply, it makes me look like I'm ignoring them, or blowing them off. Imputing tha

Re: [mailop] SPF: Does include: a host without TXT entry invalidate the whole SPF entry?

2023-06-08 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) via mailop
> IETF specs tell you what to do to interoperate, but deliberately don't > spend a lot of time saying what to do if other people do it wrong. > > If you don't care enough to publish a valid SPF record, why should > we think you care whether we deliver your mail? After dealing with this for many y

Re: [mailop] HTML - was Re: [Admin] Re: This is ridiculous

2024-12-27 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) via mailop
Michael Denney via mailop writes: > I can definitely switch to non-HTML email for the mailing list if it's = > beneficial / easier on everyone. I just didn't realize that in 2024 = > this was an issue tbh. I have pretty crappy eyesight, so a lot of HTML mail is just plain unreadable to me. I al

Re: [mailop] [Admin] Re: This is ridiculous

2024-12-27 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) via mailop
Michael Denney via mailop writes: > Of course there will be people that don't have HTML email, but in the = > last 10+ years I can't think of a single instance beyond today where me = > sending an HTML email instead of plain-text caused anyone any problems. The above paragraph is a perfect exampl

Re: [mailop] [Admin] Re: This is ridiculous

2024-12-27 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) via mailop
Michael Denney via mailop writes: > I'm simply replying via my normal mail client. I didn't realize that = > having HTML in my message would cause anyone problems. AFAIK everyone = > these days has an HTML-Capable mail client, but maybe I was wrong. My two MUAs are Alpine and MH. Blissfully HT