[mailop] MailChimp...

2017-05-14 Thread Michelle Sullivan
MailChimp people... Around 48 hours ago sent message to abuse@ ... got no reply (not even an Ack) ... Is this normal? Maybe someone would like to contact me offlist as a spammer on Sendgrid got booted now they are on MailChimp. Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org

Re: [mailop] RFC question on smtp replies...

2017-07-07 Thread Michelle Sullivan
either each line logged separately in order or converted to: "521 Line one Line two Line three" before logging. Regards, -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Fwd: RFC question on smtp replies...

2017-07-07 Thread Michelle Sullivan
abc.def - gsmtp" I hate this inconsistency before the weekend ;-). Yours, -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] User question about getting off blocklists

2017-07-12 Thread Michelle Sullivan
blem hasn't been fixed, it usually doesn't matter who asks to have the block removed, either. What John said... Regards, Michelle @ SORBS (no I don't do delisting request here... http://www.sorbs.net/cgi-bin/support to make a request.) -- Michelle Su

Re: [mailop] Proofpoint contact please

2018-01-12 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Resending without your personal address as it is refused everytime... Michelle Sullivan wrote: Luis E. Muñoz via mailop wrote: Hi there, Various organizations are reporting persistent issues delivering email to various sites. Normal support channels aren't working. I would be gratef

[mailop] Heads Up

2018-01-19 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Just for a little fun and to be warned... 7 years ago I created an account that I use only for Facebook (because at the time I had a stalker ex who was successfully manipulating the Facebook 'account kill' robot into killing my account)... it is dedicated only to facebook, it gets used for not

Re: [mailop] Heads Up

2018-02-02 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Charles McKean wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 9:41 AM, Ken O'Driscoll via mailop wrote: On Sat, 2018-01-20 at 11:14 +1100, Michelle Sullivan wrote: One can only conclude, they either have a leak in their API, or they altered the permissions to give out emails when specifically denied, or

Re: [mailop] Heads Up

2018-02-02 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Ken O'Driscoll via mailop wrote: On Sat, 2018-01-20 at 11:14 +1100, Michelle Sullivan wrote: One can only conclude, they either have a leak in their API, or they altered the permissions to give out emails when specifically denied, or they got hacked and didn't disclose it. They h

Re: [mailop] Issues With the way Google Groups unsubscribe is used in headers..

2018-02-13 Thread Michelle Sullivan
med subcriptions after list owners jump through several extra hoops to prove they're not spammers? Account aging is probably a good start. Wouldn't be a better idea to default to confirmed-opt-in and only allow switching that off for approved "good" users? (could be robot

Re: [mailop] Mail Transfer Agent Alternatives

2018-02-13 Thread Michelle Sullivan
n they went to buy the new license they were given a retroactive fee as well... which would convince me to jump ship and blacklist the company from any further business if I were on the receiving end... -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___

Re: [mailop] GDPR and WHOIS PRIVACY

2018-05-13 Thread Michelle Sullivan
anything has been a joke, "its facebook there is nothing we can do, stop using social media" being the answer in all cases... seriously!!) I expect it (the wrangling and legal arguments) to go on for some time yet, before this is all sorted out. I expect you'll be ri

Re: [mailop] GDPR and WHOIS PRIVACY

2018-05-13 Thread Michelle Sullivan
y in the EU or not... Of course the last link above is the amusing one... "Hey, avoid the GDPR, stop doing business in the EU and block all EU traffic!" Doh! -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Any Sorbs update?

2018-09-27 Thread Michelle Sullivan
when it’s complete. Regards, Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ Sent from my iPad > On 28 Sep 2018, at 04:57, Josh Nason wrote: > > Anyone know what’s up with Sorbs? I think the maintenance page has been up > for a week now. > ___ &

Re: [mailop] outlook.com blocking reason: S3150 "network is on our block list"

2018-09-29 Thread Michelle Sullivan
ar' and terminate with extreme prejudice... *THEN* and only then will we get rid of the blight that is spam. Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Any Sorbs update?

2018-09-29 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Michelle Sullivan wrote: It’ll be out of “Maintenance Mode” in the next 24 hours all being well. The main database cluster is being migrated to new hardware, new software and new OS (all at the same time) It was planned as an online migration however, the support (ticket) database couldn’t

Re: [mailop] Sorbs Delisting Request

2018-10-31 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Robots reply first, if not resolved you can reply and it will go to real humans. Mostly within a few hours. Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ Sent from my iPad > On 31 Oct 2018, at 20:18, Noel Butler wrote: > > Hi, > > I've heard when they have high volumes of mail

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

2019-01-08 Thread Michelle Sullivan
uld be easily consumed by MTAs. If such an RBL is created and takes off, I'd be very interested in allowing people to slave the zone and host it locally. ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/list

Re: [mailop] Any iCloud admins on this list?

2019-01-17 Thread Michelle Sullivan
lop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Blog: Logjam, Openssl and Email Deliverability

2015-06-26 Thread Michelle Sullivan
d "ok you want encrypted, ok well you have to be to this standard, and no if you want to drop back, sorry you have to restart the connection..." (def 'sane': anyone one might want to exchange data with) -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] EHLO/rDNS match

2015-06-26 Thread Michelle Sullivan
and watch most of the problems dissolve into history... -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Blog: Logjam, Openssl and Email Deliverability

2015-06-26 Thread Michelle Sullivan
onnection and what you don't do is: 3/ Encrypt the connection so no-one can see my email in transit because yeah sure all servers will always TLSv1.2 -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Blog: Logjam, Openssl and Email Deliverability

2015-06-29 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Brandon Long wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Michelle Sullivan <mailto:miche...@sorbs.net>> wrote: > > > > Sure SMTP can have the lowest common denominator, but I thought the > whole point of the protocol and extensions was: > >

Re: [mailop] Blog: Logjam, Openssl and Email Deliverability

2015-06-29 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Brandon Long wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Michelle Sullivan <mailto:miche...@sorbs.net>> wrote: > > > Thoughts/comments welcome. > > > Sure, there's a bit of political or privacy argument involved here, > that some people think

Re: [mailop] Blog: Logjam, Openssl and Email Deliverability

2015-07-01 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Brandon Long wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Hugo Slabbert <mailto:hslabb...@stargate.ca>> wrote: > > On Tue 2015-Jun-30 01:04:48 +0200, Michelle Sullivan > mailto:miche...@sorbs.net>> wrote: > > That said, so

Re: [mailop] Blog: Logjam, Openssl and Email Deliverability

2015-07-01 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Hugo Slabbert wrote: > On Tue 2015-Jun-30 01:04:48 +0200, Michelle Sullivan > wrote: > >>> That said, so far today, only 0.015% of our outbound messages that >>> were over an encrypted link were using SSLv3. At our volume, that's >>> not nothing, unfortu

Re: [mailop] Apple, iPhone setup, attempts SSL on port 587

2015-07-30 Thread Michelle Sullivan
rs to allow both plain text and ssl to the same port... though a client should not be trying it by default as it's unlikely it will work.) -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Apple, iPhone setup, attempts SSL on port 587

2015-07-30 Thread Michelle Sullivan
nect is 465, and I > believe that’s now deprecated. > I think it's only deprecated because SSL as a protocol is deprecated... (in favour of TLS) -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Apple, iPhone setup, attempts SSL on port 587

2015-07-30 Thread Michelle Sullivan
ut may negotiate encryption. (or more correctly it specifies SMTP - which is a plain text by default protocol - may negotiate TLS) -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Apple, iPhone setup, attempts SSL on port 587

2015-07-30 Thread Michelle Sullivan
gt; > Many MSAs support cleartext on Port 587, but operators do a disservice > to their customers by permitting it. > Sorry..? why? -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Apple, iPhone setup, attempts SSL on port 587

2015-08-03 Thread Michelle Sullivan
entify the guilty party, and there's still stuff that > doesn't know how to do AUTH or is unbearably painful to configure. > I concur with this. AUTH is *OPTIONAL* and should remain so (maybe default it on like just about every MSA does now - most seem to allow 127.0.0.1 with

Re: [mailop] MailFoundry Replacement?

2015-08-05 Thread Michelle Sullivan
agic-quadrant-secure-email-gateways ... :) (and we do appliances ;-) ) And if you really want to ramp it all up ensure you ask about the TAP part of it.. -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] MailFoundry Replacement?

2015-08-07 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Curtis Maurand wrote: > On 8/5/2015 5:16 PM, Michelle Sullivan wrote: >> Michael Wise wrote: >>> Exchange Online Protection? :) >>> >>> >>> https://products.office.com/en-us/exchange/microsoft-exchange-online-protection-email-filter-and-a

Re: [mailop] BTInternet delivery problems

2015-09-07 Thread Michelle Sullivan
s, >> >> Bron. >> >> > > > ___ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/mailop > -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] BTInternet delivery problems

2015-09-08 Thread Michelle Sullivan
lies get another color... I'm looking forward to an epic thread when I get to over 256 colours (not because I can't but because most people can't tell) -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] contact at cantv.net?

2016-01-01 Thread Michelle Sullivan
e able to contact him via l...@sorbs.net but your mileage may vary there... I don't know if he kept the forward up to date or logs in from time to time. -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] I have developed a new method of blocking spam that's a game changer

2016-01-18 Thread Michelle Sullivan
ing, FUSSP. You're not the only one... and interestingly I got this earlier... To: "Michelle Sullivan [Webform]" From: dave.w...@ntlworld.com Subject: [Webform] How to cure 90+% of fake emails Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 05:14:21 -0800 (PST) Michelle, I invented Domain Valida

Re: [mailop] Spurious 'Client host [xyz] blocked using b.barracudacentral.org' replies

2016-01-21 Thread Michelle Sullivan
27.0.0.0/8 from *any* query. > > > This is from memory, I remember a discussion … a decade or so ago? > And yes it was almost a decade ago... ;-) Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Spurious 'Client host [xyz] blocked using b.barracudacentral.org' replies

2016-01-21 Thread Michelle Sullivan
il I started receiving complaints from some sendmail users... apparently some configs/versions would not work correctly if 127.0.0.1 returned a positive in it's DNSbl checks... Of course knowing this certain "hats" wanted the check for 127.0.0.1 to disable the DNSbl check... to which my argument was always (and still is) a mail server should not mis-behave *in anyway* because of a DNSBl listing of 127.0.0.1 (just the same way it shouldn't misbehave if the lookup of a rDNS/PTR record returns 127.0.0.1...) -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] New method of blocking spam

2016-01-21 Thread Michelle Sullivan
ust on the subject, ok I'll go with that.. If you're doing it on the body you're probably working against prior art of a 2004 patent. Regards, Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] New method of blocking spam

2016-01-21 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Marc Perkel wrote: > > On 01/21/16 17:23, Michelle Sullivan wrote: >> Marc Perkel wrote: >>> Because it works on NOT matching instead of matching they don't get >>> the same advantages as matching systems. If they try to fake one of >>> those subject

[mailop] [C&C] [Fwd: SPF and MX hacks]

2016-01-22 Thread Michelle Sullivan
n To: 'Michelle Sullivan' , n...@bbc.co.uk, n...@itn.co.uk, n...@channel4.com Michelle, Obviously SPF didn't work and your MX hack is just a con to get around Domain Validation (GB2449653). Either desist or I will prosecute for patent violation PLUS endangering people weasel

Re: [mailop] Anyone from Proofpoint around?

2016-02-05 Thread Michelle Sullivan
> https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop > > > > > ___ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop > -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ __

[mailop] Checkpoint firewall/spam appliance..

2016-03-19 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Anyone here running one (or more) ...? Were there any major changes/updates in the last 7 days? Have you noticed a sudden change in 'detected' volume? Thanks, Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing l

Re: [mailop] Checkpoint firewall/spam appliance..

2016-03-19 Thread Michelle Sullivan
-to-day changes. Was up about 400-500% over the last few weeks... Last 24 hours > 4,000% Regards, -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Checkpoint firewall/spam appliance..

2016-03-19 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Lyle Giese wrote: On 3/18/2016 6:55 AM, Michelle Sullivan wrote: Anyone here running one (or more) ...? Were there any major changes/updates in the last 7 days? Have you noticed a sudden change in 'detected' volume? Thanks, Michelle I am not running a Checkpoint, but a Barr

Re: [mailop] Mail accepted by outlook.com/hotmail.com disappears.

2016-03-23 Thread Michelle Sullivan
er they mis-typed an email ... 'gmail.com.mt' != 'gmail.com' and they're just trying to find a reason why it's not their fault.) Regards, Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mai

Re: [mailop] iCloud dropping all of our mail

2016-03-24 Thread Michelle Sullivan
sed upon open rates and our own testing). Did you get URLs pointing to the block? (You should have) If you have some message IDs I could get them looked up to see if/why they were dropped. Regards, -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___

Re: [mailop] Any Proofpoint contacts here?

2016-04-14 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Jim Cheetham wrote: I'm suffering from a strange recurrent blocking ... https://support.proofpoint.com/rbl-lookup.cgi?ip=139.80.64.247 /me waves hand... however also takes note of the other reply, and this: Your IP address is not currently being blocked: 139.80.64.247 Regards, -- Mic

Re: [mailop] Any Proofpoint contacts here?

2016-04-14 Thread Michelle Sullivan
ilman/listinfo/mailop ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Any Proofpoint contacts here?

2016-04-14 Thread Michelle Sullivan
____ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] "Spammer TLDs" and IP addresses without a reverse?

2016-04-18 Thread Michelle Sullivan
be a win win ... :P (sorry couldn't resist!) Also, what is the current consensus on rejecting messages from "bare" IP addresses without a name in DNS? THe only servers I operate or have setup that accept 'bare ips' are servers that collect spam ;-) Miche

Re: [mailop] "Spammer TLDs" and IP addresses without a reverse?

2016-04-18 Thread Michelle Sullivan
= DNS issues = Temp Fail Connection timeout/Refused = DNS issues = Temp Fail -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] "Spammer TLDs" and IP addresses without a reverse?

2016-04-19 Thread Michelle Sullivan
S A --> 213.165.190.211 -- DNS PTR --> vampire.isux.com and will issue 'EHLO vampire.isux.com'... very much a confidence boost of 'this is a well setup mail server and not a bot/malware') Regards, -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___

Re: [mailop] "Spammer TLDs" and IP addresses without a reverse?

2016-04-19 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Petar Bogdanovic wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:19:57AM +0200, Renaud Allard via mailop wrote: On 04/19/2016 09:15 AM, Michelle Sullivan wrote: As well... ;-) (and for those that don't get it... the host issued 'HELO [65.55.234.213]' or 'EHLO [65.55.234.213]

Re: [mailop] Got UCE-1 listed yesterday

2016-04-21 Thread Michelle Sullivan
list. Maybe one or two they might have special arrangements with but certainly not 'most'. -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Got UCE-1 listed yesterday

2016-04-24 Thread Michelle Sullivan
years despite what others have said, I found Constant Contact hitting my spamtraps significantly lower that the others mentioned throughout this thread... which surprised me. Regards, -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list

[mailop] Latest TLD issues..

2016-04-25 Thread Michelle Sullivan
$0.89" .. :/ -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Latest TLD issues..

2016-04-25 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Michael Peddemors wrote: On 16-04-25 01:06 PM, Michelle Sullivan wrote: Probably not so much a MailOp thing.. but for general info... Seems the latest TLD to be abused to hell and back is now .science ... ...and no surprises why... http://register.science has: "Be a .SCIENCE pioneer a

Re: [mailop] Latest TLD issues..

2016-04-26 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Luis E. Muñoz wrote: On 25 Apr 2016, at 15:25, Michelle Sullivan wrote: But again, it isn't the registrar that should be blamed, unless of course the domains are being registered with stolen or forged information and credit cards.. Yeah you didn't quote me there... My con

Re: [mailop] DNS Errors for Microsoft Hostnames

2016-04-28 Thread Michelle Sullivan
that in mind... Regards, Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] signup form abuse

2016-05-25 Thread Michelle Sullivan
://64.235.144.0/20> Specifically: 64.235.154.109, 64.235.153.2, 64.235.150.252, 64.235.153.10, 64.235.154.105, 64.235.154.109 Single click through? (as in everything in the URL?) - if so probably automated mail scanning. -- Michelle Sulliva

Re: [mailop] signup form abuse

2016-05-25 Thread Michelle Sullivan
le click unsubscribes because they think single click subscribes are dangerous therefore the unsub are... (I will never put my email address into a webpage to 'unsubscribe' it... if it doesn't already know who I am.... well I'm not about

Re: [mailop] Incorrect listing at Proofpoint

2016-05-31 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Rob N ★ wrote: We haven't been able to get hold of anyone at Proofpoint - no obvious support service for non-customers and we haven't been able to get anyone on the phone. Does anyone have a contact they can put me in touch with? Replied offlist. -- Michelle Sullivan http://ww

Re: [mailop] Mailchimp / Mandrill App: European VS US Privacy Laws

2016-06-10 Thread Michelle Sullivan
nd/or Australian Hosted domains/mailboxes. I wonder how Mailchimp would answer that... I wonder how it holds up in the real world? Regards, -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cg

Re: [mailop] Mailchimp / Mandrill App: European VS US Privacy Laws

2016-06-14 Thread Michelle Sullivan
anonymous email is likely to damage that. Well yeah, but that's your whitehat vs not so whitehat vs hey look at us we're whitehat, really, honestly, we are we're just following the law. -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] why "not comply with best practices" on SpamRats?

2016-06-15 Thread Michelle Sullivan
endations by technical experts and live statistics being taken showing a 25%(ish) efficiency gain with zero false positives all because there is a "chance" of false positives. -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing

Re: [mailop] GMail 421 is sometimes a permanent failure?

2016-06-17 Thread Michelle Sullivan
rmined as being clean or actually bad and therefore providing alternative permanent messages (whether 2xx or 5xx as appropriate.) This is of course a problem with the receivers setup however as an external party you have no-idea so you have to resort to adjusting your queue time as

Re: [mailop] GMail 421 is sometimes a permanent failure?

2016-06-20 Thread Michelle Sullivan
message again” and a 4xy as “keep trying until timeout”. (There are a couple that reattempt 5xy from different IPs, for reasons.) There are "legitimate ESPs" on this list that have stated their policy of treating 5xy as a 4xy temporary error you can retry... Regards, -- Michelle Sul

Re: [mailop] DMARC question

2016-06-25 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Or webform triggered registration email validation emails where not an insignificant number are deliberately fake and/or have typos... for example. -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Gmail blocking due to "missing" PTR record

2016-08-12 Thread Michelle Sullivan
ot required. If you have a PTR record there has to be a matching A record, it is required. Regards, Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

[mailop] Facebook/Twitter, advice/anyone here?

2016-08-15 Thread Michelle Sullivan
in problem there is people sending receipts for their purchases... you'd think they (the consumers) might be worried about a third-party getting all their (valid) credit card details, but I guess not Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http

Re: [mailop] Facebook/Twitter, advice/anyone here?

2016-08-15 Thread Michelle Sullivan
oment... Thanks anyhow.. Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Facebook/Twitter, advice/anyone here?

2016-08-16 Thread Michelle Sullivan
erase their devices etc.. such a security risk in the name of privacy... not to mention as you pointed out privacy is out of the window when you use the 'recover password' function... along with security of any credit card associated with the account. -- Michell

Re: [mailop] Facebook/Twitter, advice/anyone here?

2016-08-16 Thread Michelle Sullivan
policy"... If you block the messages people are up in arms "Facebook is too big to block are you stupid?"... I guess the answer is either publicly shame them, or attempt a court order to stop it.. and perhaps damages... which would get publ

Re: [mailop] Blocking emails from domains without SPF records

2016-08-17 Thread Michelle Sullivan
cept email from domains without SPF, if google.com doesn't have an SPF record it would just stop you sending to me, if you put in a +all or ?all record into google.com's DNS I would accept your email... Regards, -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/

Re: [mailop] Blocking emails from domains without SPF records

2016-08-17 Thread Michelle Sullivan
DKIM) Personally I wouldn't treat them differently, but that my personal opinion. Regards, Michelle On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Michelle Sullivan mailto:miche...@sorbs.net>> wrote: Brandon Long via mailop wrote: If your mail server doesn't expect to g

Re: [mailop] Blocking emails from domains without SPF records

2016-08-17 Thread Michelle Sullivan
the most part deploy in a secure fashion.) Regards, Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Blocking emails from domains without SPF records

2016-08-17 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Mark Foster wrote: By 'configured to do so', does Michelle mean , well, obeying SPF? Yes I mean if the receiving server is both checking SPF and enforcing the policy configured ;-) (sorry I did a really bad job of being clear :) ) -- Michelle Sullivan http://ww

[mailop] Anyone know anyone at Orange-CERT-CC ..?

2016-08-29 Thread Michelle Sullivan
thing wrong with the SORBS email system (both directly and via the webform)... Thanks, -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] How many more RBL's do we really need?

2016-08-29 Thread Michelle Sullivan
BS RBL for 'old data'... I think not, you're welcome to think otherwise. Don't you just hate these threads that can start arguments on what is an FP and what is not? :P -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] How many more RBL's do we really need?

2016-08-30 Thread Michelle Sullivan
ments were actually directed at invaluement - they were all comments surrounding those directly mentioned but hopefully generalised enough that fingers were not pointed where there was something lacking.) Regards, -- Michelle Sullivan http://ww

Re: [mailop] Need abuse/postmaster contact for AT&T to resolve IP block

2016-08-31 Thread Michelle Sullivan
locked.__For_information_see_http://att.net/blocks> #SMTP# I've seen a load of these as well... for the SORBS support server replies... Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chill

Re: [mailop] WP.pl issues

2016-09-07 Thread Michelle Sullivan
t a problem, just a tad annoying. -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Breathe....

2016-09-16 Thread Michelle Sullivan
results in silence rather than adversarial noise. Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Recommendations for max limits on header, for a receiving server

2016-11-01 Thread Michelle Sullivan
x27;d suggest it is excessive and I wonder how many clients would safely deal with such sizes... certainly it isn't mobile sensible and I wouldn't be considering changing limits to accept them. -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mai

Re: [mailop] Trouble with dnsbl.sorbs.net?

2016-11-10 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Robert L Mathews wrote: From my locations, I'm seeing that some of the SORBS dnsbl.sorbs.net DNSBL hasn't been working correctly for a couple of weeks. They use 18 servers (rbldns0.sorbs.net - rbldns18.sorbs.net, excepting rbldns5.sorbs.net), but three or four of these do not respond, and four h

Re: [mailop] FacebookMail Contact?

2016-11-25 Thread Michelle Sullivan
陈俊平 wrote: Hello Team, Is there any one from Facebook or got their contacts? The domain facebookmail.com is making a lot of SMTP connections to my MX servers and doing "SMTP RCPT TO" to many sorted and invalid accounts, whose requests are so many that it results in a DDOS-like attack. I a

Re: [mailop] SORBS on the list?

2016-12-01 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Michael Ellis wrote: Hi, Anyone from SORBS on the list? You have a /17 blacklisted for Zombie activity from 2004 I need to speak to you about. Michelle Sullivan is here I believe. Sorbs is her baby Thanks Michael... Ryan, log a support ticket in the ISP-Support queue and if the support

Re: [mailop] Too funny Amazon Abuse Responses..

2016-12-02 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Michael Peddemors wrote: Our auditors just shared this one .. After a particularly bad day of spam coming from AWS being reported, a careful email was crafted to the abuse desk, with full headers of a sampling of the spam, and a list of the IP(s) that were used.. Automated response .. "Than

Re: [mailop] Storing 821 envelope recipients in an 822.Header?

2016-12-07 Thread Michelle Sullivan
David Hofstee wrote: The X- type headers are deprecated... https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6648 Oh now there's a bad idea if ever I heard one... :/ Michelle ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listin

Re: [mailop] Storing 821 envelope recipients in an 822.Header?

2016-12-07 Thread Michelle Sullivan
John Levine wrote: In article <584815fc.40...@sorbs.net> you write: David Hofstee wrote: The X- type headers are deprecated... https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6648 Oh now there's a bad idea if ever I heard one... If you read the document, you'd know that it said that if people actually use an

Re: [mailop] SORBS help

2017-01-05 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Vick Khera wrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Bryan Vest > wrote: If someone from SORBS could contact me off list or on list I don't care, either way we need to get this block removed. How much trouble is it causing you? I find it doesn't cause all that

Re: [mailop] SORBS help

2017-01-05 Thread Michelle Sullivan
John Leslie wrote: Michelle Sullivan wrote: ... On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Bryan Vest mailto:murli...@gmail.com>> wrote: If someone from SORBS could contact me off list or on list I don't care, either way we need to get this block removed. ... (restoring from B

Re: [mailop] SORBS help

2017-01-06 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Vick Khera wrote: On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 7:07 PM, Michelle Sullivan <mailto:miche...@sorbs.net>> wrote: So taking your blatant attack literally which I was under the impression was against list policy, lets instead attempt to be constructive and have a clam discussion..

Re: [mailop] SORBS help

2017-01-07 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. wrote: On Jan 7, 2017, at 11:33 AM, D'Arcy Cain wrote: On 2017-01-07 01:05 PM, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. wrote: Moreover, Federal law *specifically* grants that right to ISPs (refusing anybody's email for any, and indeed for no, reason). Where is this country called "Fede

Re: [mailop] SORBS help

2017-01-07 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Michelle Sullivan wrote: Vick Khera wrote: On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 7:07 PM, Michelle Sullivan <mailto:miche...@sorbs.net>> wrote: So taking your blatant attack literally which I was under the impression was against list policy, lets instead attempt to be constructive a

Re: [mailop] SORBS help

2017-01-07 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Bryan Vest wrote: We have been blocked for 48 hours by SORBS for an email that was in no way spam. It did not look like spam and was sent to a small group of email addresses. The ip address in question only has this one entry in their system and of course no replies to request for answer as to

Re: [mailop] SORBS help

2017-01-07 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Jaren Angerbauer wrote: On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 9:10 PM, Michelle Sullivan <mailto:miche...@sorbs.net>> wrote: Perhaps you'd like to backup the assertion that "It did not look like spam and was sent to a small group of email addresses." with the actual IP ad

Re: [mailop] SORBS help

2017-01-07 Thread Michelle Sullivan
To All but to Bryan specifically as well... Michelle Sullivan wrote: Jaren Angerbauer wrote: On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 9:10 PM, Michelle Sullivan <mailto:miche...@sorbs.net>> wrote: Perhaps you'd like to backup the assertion that "It did not look like spam and was se

Re: [mailop] SORBS help

2017-01-09 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Vick Khera wrote: On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 7:04 PM, Michelle Sullivan <mailto:miche...@sorbs.net>> wrote: Therefore, I'm not even going to discuss the issue of 'problem solved within minutes' issue at this point as you will note the above covers

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