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

2023-08-23 Thread Paul Ebersman via mailop
lena> They chose incomprehensible m4 in order to coerce you to buy lena> support from them. nice shot. ;) sadly, as someone who still remembers doing raw sendmail.cf, m4 was a major improvement over eric's fascinating attempt to create a new AI language and claim it was a configuration syntax.

Re: [mailop] Comcast issues?

2023-11-27 Thread Paul Ebersman via mailop
jarland> Anyone else seeing issues connecting to comcast.net MX servers jarland> today? We've got emails piling up in queue and connection jarland> failures all over. Nope. Not just you. Been backing up since at least 07:43am PST this morning, still clogged on my server. _

Re: [mailop] Comcast issues?

2023-11-27 Thread Paul Ebersman via mailop
faisal> Yes, there's been a few reports elsewhere. As Laura commented faisal> somewhere: laura> "Given the amount of mail I'm getting today I suspect it's just laura> "All lines are busy. Please try again."" LOL. Yes, black friday/cyber monday are the annual "oh yeah, i'd been meaning to unsubsc

Re: [mailop] Outgoing Spam from Microsoft IPs

2024-02-19 Thread Paul Ebersman via mailop
Not sure exactly how long but at least 2020. I moved IPs when my server was moved and rDNS took a day or two to get updated and mailed bounced during this time. ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Domains discrimination

2024-07-10 Thread Paul Ebersman via mailop
jlevine> I agree that overall, the new TLD program has been a failure jlevine> and makes a mockery of ICANN's claim to operate as a public jlevine> charity in the interests of the public. atro> The second round is just around the corner. I guess you're atro> thrilled. I am. I wish the next round

Re: [mailop] Suggestions for VPS providers in Europe?

2019-12-03 Thread Paul Ebersman via mailop
andy> I would also recommend Mythic Beasts. We only used them to send a andy> low volume of email, but never had problems and technically they andy> are a capable bunch who I imagine would care about abuse. +1 on tech clue and caring about abuse with Mythic Beasts. __

Re: [mailop] Can someone write me a prescription for a sane MTA? I'm allergic to Postfix.

2019-12-05 Thread Paul Ebersman via mailop
joe> The O'Reilly book on UUCP has a bear on the front for a reason. Yeah. A radioactive zombie apocalypse bear. ;) (Scars from having 3000+ UUCP customers and having to process UUCP maps and gatewaying to SMTP, BITNET and probably something else I've finally mercifully forgotten...) We gave a c

Re: [mailop] BIMI

2019-12-06 Thread Paul Ebersman via mailop
pbk> - It is said to increase security for mailbox owners because seeing pbk> the companies logo they now they can see the message really is pbk> from "brand.com". pbk> I still doubt this will work, because I could easily create a logo pbk> that looks similar to brand.com, but use "brAnd.com

[mailop] harassment/death threat detection/filtering/prosecution

2020-07-15 Thread Paul Ebersman via mailop
We have all sorts of tools for detecting, filtering, documenting spam and processes for trying to get spammers off the net (and occasionally even prosecuted). But in these tense times, lots of PoC/non-white/non-cis get hate emails, death threats, etc. Is there software out there like spamassassin

Re: [mailop] DNS issues for CloudFilter?

2021-01-12 Thread Paul Ebersman via mailop
matthew-l> As far as I am aware, the SOA SERIAL on authoratitive servers matthew-l> is not involved in any resolution by resolvers; in short, matthew-l> resolvers don't make use of it. The only thing resolvers do matthew-l> use from the SOA is the TTL for negative caching. Yup. Serial number is

Re: [mailop] protection.outlook.com refusing to accept mail with misleading temp error message

2021-06-01 Thread Paul Ebersman via mailop
jay> Jay's Law: Any product released by a technology company with jay> "Smart" in it's name will do stupid things. I find the following definition of "smart" from dictionary.com to be almost perfect in this context: "to be the cause of a sharp, stinging pain, as an irritating application, a b

Re: [mailop] Comcast throttling and marking as spam

2025-05-26 Thread Paul Ebersman via mailop
wdgarc88> We do not have contract with spamhaus so are concerning it wdgarc88> might violate some limit and spamhaus are too valuable, so now wdgarc88> we place full route filter on originate AS7922 as preventing wdgarc88> teachingmx-ins is better cure alround pe> Your network but be aware that th

Re: [mailop] Comcast throttling and marking as spam

2025-05-26 Thread Paul Ebersman via mailop
wdgarc88> We do not have contract with spamhaus so are concerning it wdgarc88> might violate some limit and spamhaus are too valuable, so now wdgarc88> we place full route filter on originate AS7922 as preventing wdgarc88> teachingmx-ins is better cure alround Your network but be aware that the le

Re: [mailop] Comcast throttling and marking as spam

2025-05-26 Thread Paul Ebersman via mailop
wdgarc88> In past 48 hour we see massive increase in spam attempts, have wdgarc88> comcast previously blocked port 25 outbound? and now removed wdgarc88> that block? Last I heard, they still block outbound 25 by default for all consumer connections. But there is one particular spammer that likes t