Re: [mailop] DigitalOcean calling for social media s* storm? (Re: Why is it so hard to have takedown's performed..)

2019-04-29 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
If you follow any of the white hat groups, or security researchers, you will see a lot of them already doing it with little or no effect.. (Which means of course people stop bothering to report it) However, a little birdie told me that certain government agencies are finally waking up and gath

Re: [mailop] DigitalOcean calling for social media s* storm? (Re: Why is it so hard to have takedown's performed..)

2019-04-29 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2019-04-29 7:58 a.m., Michael Rathbun via mailop wrote: On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 07:26:23 -0700, Michael Peddemors via mailop wrote: PS, pgHammer went quiet yesterday.. either someone caught/killed his C&C server, or the actor realized that there was too much attention on the activity.

Re: [mailop] DigitalOcean calling for social media s* storm? (Re: Why is it so hard to have takedown's performed..)

2019-04-29 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2019-04-29 8:18 a.m., Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop wrote: I wonder if we should*all* tweet to them, including the hashtag #DigitalOceanHostsBadGuys ?;-) When Anne suggests something like this.. ;) Done! -- "Catch the Magic of Linux..." --

Re: [mailop] DigitalOcean calling for social media s* storm? (Re: Why is it so hard to have takedown's performed..)

2019-04-29 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2019-04-29 8:37 a.m., Michael Peddemors via mailop wrote: On 2019-04-29 8:18 a.m., Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop wrote: I wonder if we should*all*  tweet to them, including the hashtag #DigitalOceanHostsBadGuys ?;-) When Anne suggests something like this.. ;) Done! Speaking of

Re: [mailop] DigitalOcean calling for social media s* storm? (Re: Why is it so hard to have takedown's performed..)

2019-04-29 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
ell them every email exists and is valid ;) Just kidding, why let them use valuable resources.. PPS, You know the IP(s) can change at any time ;) On 2019-04-29 3:40 p.m., Carl Byington via mailop wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Mon, 2019-04-29 at 09:12 -0700, Michael Peddem

Re: [mailop] Howto be a good mailop (best practice / insights wanted)

2019-05-13 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2019-05-10 4:21 a.m., Laura Atkins via mailop wrote: You don’t need to separate your transactional and your marketing mail on different IPs because the filters aren’t using IPs as the unique mail identifier. I would suggest that you 'might' have a point when it comes to the bigger players,

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

2019-05-21 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Don't get me started on OVH IP Space. Aside from all the blocks delegated with no rwhois, hiding behind GDPR as an excuse not to provide information on the operator.. Aside from known spammers where the domains are so obviously used for fraud. Aside from the poor OVH abuse handling. Just mak

Re: [mailop] About to blacklist Marketo - has anyone received non-spam from them?

2019-05-28 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2019-05-28 12:00 p.m., Michael Wise via mailop wrote: "Unsolicited Email is defined as email sent to persons other than (i) persons with whom Customer has an existing business relationship, OR (ii) persons who have consented to the receipt of such email, including publishing or providing the

Re: [mailop] Microsoft blacklisting a /16

2019-06-05 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Hehehe.. how does that saying going about the "pot calling the kettle black"? But aside from comments about what people are saying about Azure It really is when those /28's start firing up on your network.. I would 'like' to say it is a problem with vetting new customers, however I can't

Re: [mailop] Microsoft blacklisting a /16

2019-06-05 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
provements I'm trying to push through here, and if there are some easy things I'm forgetting or overlooking, I'd like to know. I'd be happy to take this off-list. Kind regards Bastiaan van den Berg - Hetzner Online GmbH Am

[mailop] And so the week starts ;)

2019-06-17 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Got several of these today.. Looks like a fairly easy fake Interac to detect. Sending to stripped addresses off of web pages from the look of it.. Probably compromised accounts/computers, but still.. Try to squeek time this week to send a more friendly catch up email.. -- Michael --

[mailop] *DOH* Mondays.. Sorry, that was meant to be offlist..

2019-06-17 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Too many hats today. and too many hours sorry about that.. Still several hours of work in front of me.. -- "Catch the Magic of Linux..." Michael Peddemors, President/CEO LinuxMagic Inc. Visit us at http://www.linuxmagi

[mailop] Want to know why Country Auth Blocking is important for your customers?

2019-06-28 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Spot checking one bot net operating on compromised routers, one country that really has a problem that needs to be addressed.. last 30 minutes on ONE server.. All SMTP AUTH attacks against port 587.. The percentage of compromised routers on these networks is staggering.. 91.76.100.131.in-addr.

Re: [mailop] Emailed notifications from facebook failing SPF checks

2019-07-25 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Speaking about Facebook.. wish they standardized naming conventions .. They seem to also have a real problem with sending to invalid email addresses, of course with their size it could simply be thousands of ppl with fat fingers but.. Would be nice to clearly know the behavioral differences be

Re: [mailop] Who is Secutec.BE?

2019-07-25 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Judging by the quick google, business been around since 2004, and pushing secure DNS services now.. Seems's I have heard their name around... Linked in shows about 56 employees.. Are the reasons related to the obvious ransom ware still leaking out your network? (Oh, just giving you a hard ti

Re: [mailop] Lawsuit to watch: Tulsi v. Google

2019-07-26 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Thanks Ann for sharing, And you are right, this "could" be opening a scary can of worms for 'anyone' who is or has control or influence on delivering messages of any type, (eg Twitter, Spam Filtering companies, etc). During the last election this was a concern, Democrats complaining Republic

Re: [mailop] HEADER LENGTH as per RFC2822

2019-08-20 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2019-08-20 12:45 p.m., John Levine via mailop wrote: In article <530230574.3626402.1566296780...@ss002889.tauri.ch> you write: -=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=- Not quite, RFC5322 section 2.2.3 explicitly states at the end of the paragraph: "An unfolded header field has no length restriction and the

[mailop] Hey MailJet Admin's.. Targeted Phishing against your customers..

2019-08-21 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Fake Account reactivation notices circulating.. Return-Path: Subject: Mailjet - Re-Activate your account They are hot linking to https://app.mailjet.com/images/email/transac/fb.png (Could always change that image to 'This is a Scam' ;) http://gtpx.mjt.lu/lnk https://farmforkitchen/m My

Re: [mailop] Weird blocking by outlook.com (S3150)

2019-08-22 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
+1 But now if we can ONLY get Amazon, GoogleCloud, and Azure to start doing the same thing ;) Still far too many bad actors relying on the network being 'too big to block' and very loose SWIP/rwhois. On 2019-08-22 8:41 a.m., Laura Atkins via mailop wrote: In my experience, when the bounce mes

Re: [mailop] Weird blocking by outlook.com (S3150)

2019-08-23 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2019-08-23 12:45 a.m., Benoit Panizzon via mailop wrote: 157.161.0.0/16 is a 'legacy', pre RIPE range which is exempt from the RIPE requirement to register customer allocations. Just because it is exempt, doesn't mean you can't take the opportunity to be a good netizen, and operate a 'rwhoi

Re: [mailop] SpamCop and listwashing

2019-08-27 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2019-08-27 10:07 a.m., Jay Hennigan via mailop wrote: Don't use Spamcop then. Send your complaints directly to the abuse desk. Let us know if it does any good. While overall great comments, we all have to realize the frustration of those involved in sending reports 'directly' as well.. To

[mailop] Another example of why infosec people give up on reporting..

2019-08-31 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/engage/cars By the time you finished filling all the fields out, and hit submit it tells you the recaptcha has expired and to 'reload the page', and of course with it all the information you just spent 10 minutes filling in.. *sigh* Meh! just blacklist

Re: [mailop] Isn't SpamEatingMonkey's SEM-URI broken?

2023-07-10 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Actually, what I like is those companies that show real time stats on RBL's, you get to see who is the most accurate, not only who would block the most.. If you get 'inaccuracies', then someone has done something wrong. M3AAWG might be exactly the WRONG organization for this, given it's close

[mailop] Outlook/o365 having DNS Troubles?

2023-07-11 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Jul 11 08:20:04 be msd[1974542]: CONN: 52.96.233.45 -> 587 GeoIP = [US] PTR = NXDOMAIN OS = Windows NT kernel Jul 11 08:20:04 be msd[1974542]: EHLO command received, args: SJ1PR84MB3115.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM The fingerprint looks funky too.. trying to see if this is an actual cloud outlook

Re: [mailop] Guide for setting up a mail server ?

2023-07-12 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2023-07-12 12:53, Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop wrote: Most of regular consumer email users don't have any reason for this. As Bill Cole, whom I was replying to, wrote - nobody would try to impersonate you or me in a phishing campaign for financial gain, because there won't be any. hehehe.. they

Re: [mailop] Guide for setting up a mail server ?

2023-07-14 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2023-07-14 09:20, Slavko via mailop wrote: You all realize that the poor guy looking for a guide on how to set up and email server long since left, you scared him to death with the complexity.. We need to 'encourage' people to run their own mail servers, not scare them away.. Suggest yo

[mailop] Big Outbreak at Mailgun Yesterday?

2023-07-20 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
All guardpost IPs, but again it would be nice if big ESP's used the actual sender in the MAIL FROM's so that only the bad guys get blocked, and not all their customers.. IMHO.. Sorry everyone, haven't had much time for our regularly scheduled 'state of the union', working on getting other tea

Re: [mailop] I Need someone from AOL and/or Yahoo to contact me

2023-07-25 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
And consider an RBL that tracks IPs used in authentication attacks, like RATS-AUTH, RATS-NULL from SpamRats.. And you might consider your policies on allowing connections from open proxies as well in the interm.. given the amount of hackers that use that to bypass country authentication restri

Re: [mailop] I Need someone from AOL and/or Yahoo to contact me

2023-08-01 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2023-07-31 14:32, Ángel via mailop wrote: On 2023-07-25 at 17:14 +0200, Sebastian Nielsen via mailop wrote: Sadly not all MUAs implement ClientID either. Easiest way to implement 2FA on email, is to have a webpage, where you login with your 2FA token. When you have done that, the IP to visit

[mailop] Anyone On list doing the systems for the FBI

2023-08-02 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
castlemta-worker-6.usgovtexas.cloudapp.usgovcloudapi.net MAIL FROM address: [f...@subscriptions.fbi.gov] Hit me up off list, might be something wrong with your mailer.. FastTalker, trying to pipeline when not advertised? -- "Catch the Magic of Linux..." -

Re: [mailop] ANY OVH Contact?

2023-08-09 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Just ONE ?? Hehehe.. Block and Forget.. Lot's of active affiliate spammers, malware senders, BEC actors, phishing, and throw away domains.. Sorry, but OVH team's are completely uncaring on this matter it appears. It's a sad trend, those hosting providers who's 'in-use' IP count is more importa

Re: [mailop] ANY OVH Contact?

2023-08-09 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2023-08-09 08:55, Mark Alley via mailop wrote: On 8/9/2023 3:31 AM, Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop wrote: Dnia 9.08.2023 o godz. 11:00:12 Otto J. Makela via mailop pisze: Unless the situation has dramatically changed in the last year, OVH has no functioning abuse team. I block a majority of thei

[mailop] Microsoft BackScatter problem? Michael W, can you investigate?

2023-08-09 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Having a few customers reporting a REAL strange case.. they are being overwhelmed by what looks like backscatter, but a very broken backscatter. All IPs in the 40.92.NNN.NNN block. The backscatter message coming from postmas...@outlook.com as NDR"s but not a normal NDR. Being delivered to ser

[mailop] Anyone know much about Amazon servers? (Increased BackScatter)

2023-08-15 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
host ns-73.awsdns-09.com 205.251.192.73 Seems seeing an increased 'backscatter' from these servers, used maybe as a method to spread phishing materials.. Shows them as Exim servers, but no idea what those servers are meant to be doing? the dns reflection in the names suggest it isn't really m

[mailop] Anyone from Alimail on the list? A few Best Practices comments..

2023-08-22 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
First of all, would be nice it you break up your header injected by your Spam protection.. X-Alimail-AntiSpam:AC=CONTINUE;BC=0.5623653|-1;BR=01201311R341S52rulernew998_84748_200224;CH=blue;DM=|SUSPECT|false|;DS=EDM|edm_business_exp|0.992675-0.000166775-0.00715851;FP=9971652179302129152|168|1|150

[mailop] [STATE of the UNION] Tails from the trenches of the spam auditing team..

2023-08-23 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
It's been a bit, but this week with so many of the team on holidays, I guess it is on me to post an update.. Things that we are seeing.. * Increase of Japanese servers with Email compromises * Zimbra BEC continues to rise, and with the latest CVE, will expect more but it is of course sad to s

[mailop] Anyone heard of an rbl.serverko.net RBL?

2023-09-11 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Nothing at either .. http://rbl.serverko.net or http://serverko.net, and whois is privacy protected CloudFlare.. Hosted at: JoneSolutions Internet Services (JIS-45) -- "Catch the Magic of Linux..." Michael Peddemors,

Re: [mailop] Anyone heard of an rbl.serverko.net RBL?

2023-09-11 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
7;t spam, then email security at jonesolutions dot com. If you spam again, good bye forever! Seems very professional. Louis Op maandag 11 september 2023 om 17:41, schreef Michael Peddemors via mailop: Nothing at either .. http://rbl.serverko.net <http://rbl.serverko.net> or

[mailop] Any Postmaster's from Aliyun on the mailing list?

2023-10-19 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Curious about the construction of your Received Headers, from local user... Received: from Airwheel0508(mailfrom:herb...@electricluggage.net fp:SMTPD_---.V2eL5mH_1697693488) by smtp.aliyun-inc.com; Thu, 19 Oct 2023 13:31:29 +0800 Notice that there is no information, such as

Re: [mailop] New hotmail function: 'Put emails from unknown sender as Junk' causing false complaints?

2023-10-24 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2023-10-24 05:38, Benoît Panizzon via mailop wrote: Hi Team One of our customer is forwarding his emails on our platform to his hotmail email address. Today, we started getting a Microsoft Spam complaint for almost every email that was being forwarded to his hotmail account. I contacted the

[mailop] Still Don't understand Google's relaying systems.. Duplicate Return-Path, and other things..

2023-10-25 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
This spammer or mail to hire company, spams through Gmail services.. Return-Path: Received: from mail-io1-f50.google.com (HELO mail-io1-f50.google.com) (209.85.166.50) ... However.. X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IF+YQj10sXzr631pp0MqKBzywMKwgMR40jKetDYeAC5No/cCx2lD4x7tB7lheld3srQrM8NAQ== X-Rece

Re: [mailop] Still Don't understand Google's relaying systems.. Duplicate Return-Path, and other things..

2023-10-26 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Not to be 'snide' Atro, but that part is pretty obvious.. It was the technical details I was searching for, on HOW it is able to relay from those IPs.. please review the original post again.. I thought I was clear on that.. This doesn't appear to be the standard relay path/source/methods.. O

Re: [mailop] How to handle hostname and PTR mismatch?

2023-10-27 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
IMHO there are reasons for the EHLO or HELO to use the internal server name, which may not be associated with a public IP Address, so expecting the EHLO to match the PTR can and will get you into trouble. It is more important to make sure that the domain in the PTR record, has a URL associated

Re: [mailop] How to handle hostname and PTR mismatch?

2023-11-01 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
7;s all. So, what do you mean by having a valid URL associated? Thanks ! Le sam. 28 oct. 2023 à 01:03, Michael Peddemors via mailop mailto:mailop@mailop.org>> a écrit : IMHO there are reasons for the EHLO or HELO to use the internal server name, which may not be associated with a

Re: [mailop] Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook

2023-11-11 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2023-11-10 09:00, Francois Petillon via mailop wrote: What we have seen here is Microsoft IPs connecting to mailboxes using IMAP. These connections seemed to be uncorrelated from real users connections (graphs looked mostly flat) and Microsoft did not really care about credentials validity.

Re: [mailop] Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook

2023-11-11 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2023-11-11 03:30, Bjoern Franke via mailop wrote: Hi, ... I have not been aware of the fact that *ALL* apps actually might be doing this. It was just recently that I looked for alternative iOS mail apps - and "phoning home" credentials got noted only for the Spark app. This seems to be not

Re: [mailop] ClientID - was Re: Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook

2023-11-11 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Re Confirm CLIENTID usage, all MagicMail customers have CLIENTID support enabled.. Not all are 'locking' customer email accounts yet.. Like insurance.. it's often 'lock the doors AFTER you have been robbed', but it is a simple way to lock down email accounts. And we are still working on buy-i

[mailop] New Google DNS Servers? 192.178.65.0/28 NO PTR records.. anyone? Brandon?

2023-11-13 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Of course, Google never SWIP's their segments very well, but with no PTR records, not much to go on.. large DNS Queries coming from this range, anyone know if it has legit usage? - 192.178.65.2 = 10357 - 192.178.65.5 = 10327 - 192.178.65.8 = 99

Re: [mailop] New Google DNS Servers? 192.178.65.0/28 NO PTR records.. anyone? Brandon?

2023-11-14 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
:35 skrev Michael Peddemors via mailop: Of course, Google never SWIP's their segments very well, but with no PTR records, not much to go on.. Not much to go on, hmm ... ... Have you tried the Google Public DNS documentation? :) large DNS Queries coming from this range, anyone know if it has

Re: [mailop] How to report abuse to cloudflare? Only via Web-Form?!? Phishing sites not against cloudflare policy!?!

2023-11-17 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
And Laura, This is ONLY the tip of the iceberg.. as long as businesses find they can get away with things, they will keep pushing the boundaries.. Whether it is Digital Ocean turning a blind eye, or even facilitating criminal activity, encouraging other hosters to do the same, or putting up

Re: [mailop] Convincing clients of the importance of eMail recipient consent for mailing list subscriptions

2023-11-27 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Wasnt' there an article on how engagement rates for confirmed double opt-in vs unconfirmed were a LOT higher.. a few years back? I think if you can point to the higher engagement rates, that even with lower total subscribers you are more effective in your email marketing. Anyone have a link t

Re: [mailop] Cox.net contact

2023-11-30 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2023-11-30 12:39, Philip Paeps via mailop wrote: On 2023-12-01 06:59:21 (+1300), Mamidi, Sandeep via mailop wrote: We need cox.net post master details . Any one from cox.net ? Instead of going through bounces weekly, and contacting mailbox providers in alphabetical order asking for mitigat

Re: [mailop] Orange ISP - New outbound IP ranges

2023-12-01 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Jeremy, do note that there is 'history' on some of the 193.252.22.0/23 range.. I believe that previously there was Mail Essentials Project? Notice the SWIP is currently: inetnum:193.252.22.0 - 193.252.22.127 netname:MAIL-NEWMTA-FRANCE Suggest this be updated to reflect what you

Re: [mailop] Email deliverability issues to Outlook

2023-12-06 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2023-12-06 10:34, Anne Mitchell via mailop wrote: On Dec 5, 2023, at 11:49 PM, Grant Gordon via mailop wrote: A friend brought to my attention the following blog post which seems to have started around the same time we started experiencing issues and seems to be the same issue, though it

[mailop] Another very strange microsoft originated email??

2023-12-06 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Take a look at the headers for this one.. Appears to come from an sender IP on Hetzner, but related to Microsoft?? Some headers snipped for brevity, but something sure appears rotten in denmark.. love the boundary.. Any takers on explained how this is being allowed or performed? Return-Path:

Re: [mailop] Another very strange microsoft originated email??

2023-12-07 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
-HM last-modified: 2019-09-23T04:53:33Z source: APNIC % This query was served by the APNIC Whois Service version 1.88.25 (WHOIS-US4) Free trial account on Microsoft 365 being relayed through Microsoft 365 outbounds by a Hetzner IP --srs From: mailop

Re: [mailop] 451-Reject due to policy restrictions from web.de and gmx.de

2023-12-17 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Wow! Just got back from a week in the sun, and the mailing list has been busy.. A bit off topic, but it is always amazing.. rejecting based on no DKIM? It's like most new requirements, ever notice that the spammers are implementing these requirements sooner/faster than the real email operator

Re: [mailop] o365 outbound senders.. Strange Failures sending .. widespread reports

2023-12-18 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2023-12-18 14:20, Benny Pedersen via mailop wrote: Michael Peddemors via mailop skrev den 2023-12-18 22:45: Strange rewriting mechanism, but this kind of volume should be restricted from the o365 side, no? What about the usage of non-existant FQDN name in the MAIL FROM? what mta ? what

Re: [mailop] Anyone else noticing an increase in spam from Office365 distribution lists?

2024-01-16 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
I think you have to start blocking them earlier that in Spam Assassin, if you want to make a difference.. If you block them at the SMTP layer, then maybe they give up.. or if you reject with a 4XX, maybe Microsoft might notice an increase in the queues (wishful thinking) Also, if you check e

Re: [mailop] Spamhaus contact?

2024-01-18 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Examples? On 2024-01-18 13:33, hg user via mailop wrote: I also saw a spike in IP reported as malicious by spamhaus: IPs that have been sending emails for years: standard, business emails from personal accounts of people in airlines and hotels are now triggering spamhaus IP rbl... those IPs ar

Re: [mailop] Spamhaus contact?

2024-01-19 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2024-01-19 06:47, Atro Tossavainen via mailop wrote: On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 03:31:19PM +0100, hg user wrote: Ok sorry not "most" but "some may"... My checkpoint rep said that they get their reputation lists from other companies... is it wrong ? It's possible that Check Point are just an a

Re: [mailop] Spamhaus contact?

2024-01-19 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2024-01-19 12:42, Randolf Richardson, Postmaster via mailop wrote: On 2024-01-19 06:47, Atro Tossavainen via mailop wrote: On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 03:31:19PM +0100, hg user wrote: Ok sorry not "most" but "some may"... My checkpoint rep said that they get their reputation lists from other co

Re: [mailop] Ping Microsoft / MSN

2024-01-22 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2024-01-22 06:58, Benoit Panizzon via mailop wrote: https://blacklist.imp.ch/entry.php?id=1.0.8.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.2.1.e.2.3.0.4.f.1.1.1.0.1.0.a.2 no further comment needed... Mit freundlichen Grüssen -Benoît Panizzon- We don't typically use IPv6, but the pattern matches a large ou

Re: [mailop] [External] seeking a spamtrap milter

2024-01-23 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2024-01-23 12:35, Randolf Richardson, Postmaster via mailop wrote: Hi folks, I suspect this exists, but can't come up with the right search. I have domains that should never receive mail. I'd like a milter that looks for mail to those domains and feeds the IP of the sender to an outside prog

Re: [mailop] ebay postmaster contact

2024-01-29 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
And of course, this 'could' be caused by backscatter on their servers, if the emails originated from your server ;) Ensure your domains have SPF records of course, but we need more information on the list to determine if this is forgeries, or an eBay inherent problem. Suggest you send more h

[mailop] For the record, anyone tell me what specific Gmail email flows allows duplicate Return-Path as shown below?

2024-01-31 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0Yygtd3O5YdS/rWj45vxya0hwrYa/BjQf5JxGSCWzAx9RXR9bryH LpU0oZbfEz95pt1aYhcAMT1+ArGYrI6GtRLuJdtIEEHgVc36TLiys7kql09B4icWlFB6/0HAW7R L84tjrA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IHJ80+WwCu4hMgvckgAPlSHw5qrXfLxQgaNiEfLv7pnjJvoeHyju4z8pvBZv1ELBkh6pusbJQ== X-Received: by

[mailop] It's almost getting funny out there now..

2024-02-06 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
For the record, looking at the 'too big to block' stats, and definitely the o365 spam is leading the pack.. IPs that are temporarily rate limited because of too many invalid recipients reported in a 24 hour period.. (2871 IPs vs Gmail 155 IPs) Of course, not 100% relative, as their retry algo

Re: [mailop] problem setting up open-dmarc

2024-02-06 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Some days.. it's like F* DMARC.. hehehe.. Anything that created a multi-million dollar industry of consultants on how to set up DMARC, well.. email should NOT be that difficult.. I still remember when email administrators didn't know how to set up DNS correctly.. (oh wait, some still do) Yo

Re: [mailop] [EXTERNAL] It's almost getting funny out there now..

2024-02-06 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
06 16:19, Michael Wise wrote: 103.143.76.89 is not a Microsoft IP. At all. Aloha, Michael. -- Michael J Wise Microsoft Corporation| Spam Analysis "Your Spam Specimen Has Been Processed." Open a ticket for Hotmail ? -Original Message- From: mailop On Behalf Of Michael Peddemors v

Re: [mailop] Is forwarding to Gmail basically dead?

2024-02-08 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2024-02-08 10:20, Randolf Richardson, Postmaster via mailop wrote: My opinion: Get rid of forwarding to external sites whenever possible. Some universities don't even provide a forwarding option for the eMail accounts they set up for their students, and this trend will probably contin

Re: [mailop] Is forwarding to Gmail basically dead?

2024-02-09 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2024-02-08 22:11, Marco Moock via mailop wrote: Am Thu, 8 Feb 2024 10:46:51 -0800 schrieb Michael Peddemors via mailop : The only way this will stop, is when the network operators are forced to be accountable for outbound traffic dnsbl exists and some lists (e.g. uceprotect L3) entirely

Re: [mailop] Outgoing Spam from Microsoft IPs

2024-02-14 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2024-02-13 22:57, Hans-Martin Mosner via mailop wrote: We've been seeing runs of spam mails from Microsoft IP addresses without reverse DNS (possibly cloud servers). One is sending with addresses , starting on February 8. The other (same or different spammer?) uses and started just yester

[mailop] Gmail Affiliate Marketers.. getting stupid excessive... Yahoo/ATT

2024-02-14 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
All throw away domains, .xyz, .shop, .online, they are using ATT/Yahoo addresses, the emails are obvious.. Been reported a couple months back to the Yahoo people, no change to volumes.. (Note, it's all going to spam folders of course) Return-Path: Received: from mail-oo1-f78.google.com (HELO

Re: [mailop] Outgoing Spam from Microsoft IPs

2024-02-19 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2024-02-19 04:46, Gellner, Oliver via mailop wrote: On 16.02.2024 at 03:38 Matt Palmer via mailop wrote: Although I must say that without reverse DNS would seem to be the easier blocking option -- when was the last time you saw legitimate mail from an IP without rDNS? Unfortunately

Re: [mailop] Gmail.com SPF false negatives?

2024-02-27 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2024-02-27 15:01, Tim C via mailop wrote: On 28/2/24 09:30, Rob Nagler via mailop wrote: a mx ip4:139.177.203.52 You could try removing the redundant A/MX as they all point to 139.177.203.52. ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://lis

[mailop] Any Apple guys, with knowledge of their networks shed some light on this IP Space?

2024-03-04 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Does anyone know what this IP space is assigned for in general? Tracking some new threats.. inetnum:144.178.0.0 - 144.178.63.255 descr: Apple Inc status: LEGACY remarks:Cupertino admin-c:JD9555-RIPE tech-c: JD9555-RIPE netname:Apple-144-17

[mailop] Love how people use SPF records.. Just for a chuckle..

2024-03-11 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
host -t TXT save.ca save.ca descriptive text "v=spf1 ip4:70.33.236.0/25 mx a include:sendgrid.net include:thestar.ca include:thestar.com include:spf.google.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:spf.yahoo.com include:spf.aol.com include:amazonses.com -all" ... so.. basically hard bl

Re: [mailop] Mailbox Filling w. Opt-In/Sign-Up mails

2024-03-12 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Tobias, This does sound like a typical 'mail bomb', and there are even services you can rent to mail bomb an enemy.. Used to only see it in the gamer community, kid stuff.. but it is more rare than you think.. sometimes it can go on for several days.. Usually, someone has p**'ed off someone

Re: [mailop] Debt Collection Client Email Servers

2024-03-22 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
If they are 'dedicated', doesn't matter if they are coming from SendGrid, the PTR should reflect your clients domain. host 149.72.234.90 90.234.72.149.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer wrqvzxrx.outbound-mail.sendgrid.net. And given the amount of abuse of SendGrid servers, anything you can do

Re: [mailop] is warming IPs still necessary?

2024-03-25 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Your biggest threat is hosting on AWS.. Given the nature of EC2, you want to ensure that the IPs you are using are not in the midst of some abusive IPs, and AWS is still not providing public 'rwhois' delegation to our knowledge. Make sure that you have a correct PTR record of course, the gene

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

2024-03-27 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2024-03-26 15:14, Ken Johnson via mailop wrote: 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 peo

[mailop] Aruba Email Servers getting Authenticated SMTP sessions from Google?

2024-04-09 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Aruba's email systems do have a lot of issues, but this one was a little new to me.. Received: from mail-lf1-f48.google.com ([209.85.167.48]) by Aruba Outgoing Smtp with ESMTPSA id uDJ6rtNJEjUFfuDJ6rzmku; Tue, 09 Apr 2024 17:22:44 +0200 It could be that they simply record ESMTP

Re: [mailop] Reason for being listed at Spamhaus CSS and XBL unclear

2024-04-18 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
It's REALLY hard to give you good advice, if you don't include the actual IP Address that is listed.. However, if it is the same email server you sent from, it's on Contabo which has it's own problems with reputation.. And I don't think they really care to help the innocent operators on their

Re: [mailop] Reason for being listed at Spamhaus CSS and XBL unclear

2024-04-18 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2024-04-18 06:01, Sebastian Arcus via mailop wrote: In that case I think I am back to square one. If an infected device connecting to 587/465 to various servers on the internet, from our network, to try and guess passwords/break into accounts wouldn't have used the FQDN of our public IP as H

Re: [mailop] Sudden spike in Gmail failures ("TempFail – Spam")

2024-04-29 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2024-04-29 08:02, Mendel Kucharzeck via mailop wrote: Hi, During my last email campaign, I’ve encountered issues with gmail – and after investigating this for a few days, I cannot make heads or tails of the results. Maybe anyone can shed any light on what is happening. Environment: Mailin

Re: [mailop] Sudden spike in Gmail failures ("TempFail – Spam")

2024-04-30 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2024-04-30 04:44, Mendel Kucharzeck via mailop wrote: Laura, Thanks for your reply! Highly appreciated. Inline: - Anyone else seeing this behaviour from gmail recently? - Could the newly created, custom MAIL-FROM-domain cause a behaviour like this? The MAIL-FROM-Domain has not yet been use

[mailop] [STATE OF THE UNION] Tales from the Trenches..

2024-05-30 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Both life and Business have been very active, so it's been a bit since I posted one of these.. It's about time again.. * SendGrid continues to allow the same common threats from escaping * Increase in threat actors from Thailand/Vietnam region, but probably proxies for Chinese actors * Digital

Re: [mailop] [STATE OF THE UNION] Tales from the Trenches..

2024-05-30 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2024-05-30 10:46, Richard Laager via mailop wrote: On May 30, 2024, at 12:35, Michael Peddemors via mailop wrote: They do know there is RBL's that list known abusive BEC Attackers? I’m new to the list (though not email admin). What RBL are you saying I should be looking at? I al

Re: [mailop] [STATE OF THE UNION] Tales from the Trenches..

2024-05-30 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
great'.. Thanks for sharing.. On 2024-05-30 12:32, Slavko via mailop wrote: Dňa 30. mája 2024 18:23:25 UTC používateľ Michael Peddemors via mailop napísal: I am sure there are many others that are dedicated to strictly AUTHentication abuse.. The key is to be able to do the check at all

Re: [mailop] salesforce phishing emails

2024-06-13 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2024-06-13 08:28, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop wrote: On Jun 12, 2024, at 11:40 PM, Hans-Martin Mosner via mailop wrote: Am 12.06.24 um 18:04 schrieb Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop: I've also always found abuse@ to be responsive there, and it's peopled by a real person, who

[mailop] Another 'Verified Email' service on AWS EC2

2024-06-18 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Jun 18 09:58:03 be msd[1959712]: CONN: 34.229.185.73 -> 25 GeoIP = [US] PTR = ec2-34-229-185-73.compute-1.amazonaws.com OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x Jun 18 09:58:04 be msd[1959712]: HELO command received, args: [127.0.0.1] Jun 18 09:58:04 be msd[1959712]: RSET command received, args: Jun 18 09:58:04 be m

Re: [mailop] t-online.de spam

2024-06-18 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Hey Benny, Just an FYI, the list admin's prefer NOT to have the list used for reporting spam.. It's okay to report generic trends, or misconfigurations, or visibility into something new.. (And of course, you are welcome to provide evidence of that.. ) but the list can quickly get consumed if

Re: [mailop] AT&T Blocklist

2024-06-18 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
https://wznoc.com/ With a obscure page like that, you are asking for trouble.. Just like the pages many of the bullet proof hosters throw up.. Why not use amscomputer.com in the PTR records, if these are your servers? https://www.amscomputer.com/ Inquiring minds would like to know. CIDR:

Re: [mailop] Another 'Verified Email' service on AWS EC2

2024-06-25 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
at's a good idea, except when you have to deal with companies like Everbridge Inc or Tencent QQ, which apparently think it's a good idea to rent VMs at various cloud providers and run them with their default config. ----- Original Message - | From: "Michael Peddemors via mailo

Re: [mailop] Why an SPF hard bounce on ~all ?

2024-06-27 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Slightly 'off-thread' but want to point out that the idea of 'soft-fail' is not universal.. Personally, we believe that if someone advertises a HARD FAIL, it should be rejected in the SMTP transaction.. And SOFT FAIL, if from a source that especially vulnerable to forgeries, and/or targeted in

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

2024-07-09 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2024-07-09 07:58, Michael Breuer via mailop wrote: On 9. Jul 2024, at 03:41, John Levine via mailop wrote: So for this inquiry I really am asking about reliable hosts - anywhere in the world. That may or may not include names like Hetzner, Vultr, or AWS - Take a look at Amazon SES. It'

Re: [mailop] Help with handling backscatter

2024-07-11 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
There are SO many things wrong with this don't know even where to start.. Received: from shopify.com ([89.190.156.188]) Duplicate Return-Path X-Original-Message-ID: <668ef133.170a0220.9c6db.ca0esmtpin_added_bro...@mx.google.com> (google.com: domain abaimiddle.school.test-google-a.com configure

Re: [mailop] Domains discrimination ... and Gmail

2024-07-11 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Yes, as we all know.. threat teams and spam filtering teams spend a LOT of resources on those.. but when you see exactly the same samples year after year, you have to question their motivation.. (right now 'their' meaning specifically Gmail and o265) And 'rejecting' the messages IS possible, b

Re: [mailop] oauth2 for mail clients

2024-07-31 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2024-07-31 07:49, Andrew C Aitchison via mailop wrote: On Sun, 14 Jul 2024, Scott Q. via mailop wrote: My question wasn't geared in that direction. It's up to each provider to create their own custom interfaces for integrating all that. It's not rocket science. My question was geared toward

Re: [mailop] Uptick in Google Groups spam?

2024-08-27 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Uptick no.. It's been crazy levels for over a year now... The team has a whole slew of custom filters for this type of spam, it would be easier of course if Google took care of them but.. And there has been several discussions on this and other lists about this type of spam.. You might want t

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