> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 09:38:39AM +0200, Pierre Labastie wrote: >> On 24/05/2018 03:37, Christopher Gregory wrote: >> >> I thought I had answered that mail, but I clicked on "Reply" instead of >> "Reply >> list", and for some reason, my ISP did not want to deliver to your >> private >> address. Forgot to resend to the list. Sorry. >> > I haven't seen Christopher's mails on this, but ISTR he is in New > Zealand ? On a different list this month I suddenly started > receiving multiple copies (typically 12) of a post from someone in > New Zealand, and the same for a couple of the replies to him. > > Apparently my ISP sends a response which is interpreted as failure, > and that list's hosting resends. The change was sudden - a few days > earlier his posts arrived as normal. The only obvious oddity (both > before and after) was that his mailserver is apparently in Germany, > because his ISP has outsourced that. > > Overall, it turns out that different mail systems seem to have a lot > of scope for sending unusual responses. But for Pierre's issue, I > suspect it is some (proprietary) filtering at his ISP. Certainly, > my own ISP has poor filtering - only good mails seem to get flagged > as spam, or rejected - and even with that apparently turned off for > my account I still find that a small number of mails never arrive. > > Overall, email turns out to be unreliable at times. :-( > > ĸen > -- > Remembering The People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road. > Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably priced Love! > And a Hard-boiled Egg! > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > Hello,
Pierre there is a reason why your isp cannot send to my private email. I lease a virtual private server in the USA and due to all the spam and hacked accounts when I was with a shared webhosting company, I had to do something very very drastic. I have implemented a white list on exim and any person who sends me email has to have their address in the recipient white list or the email is bounced back with the message added that they are spammers. A side effect that I found was, that when I implemented it, it also prevented me sending any emails until I added my email addresses to the list. I have further had to ip ban ALL of the countries of the world due to literally getting thousands of attempts to hack my server or to spam. I have it set up so that isp's servers can query my domain (I am also running my own dns servers.) I gave up emailing the individual isp's/hosting companies as they never did a thing. Now, if they attempt to spam me, it gets stuck in whatever mail server they are sending from. As far as I am concerned, this serves the system administrators right. I get absolutely no spam, and apart from the reply that Wayne made, which I never received, I get all legitimate emails. It seems that some of the free email providers have placed me on a black list, probably due to the choke of bounces they received as I am not able to send email to my landlord. I send it, but it does not bounce back, nor does he receive it. My iptables rule set is very large, but thanks to ipset there is only one line per country, and I can manually update each set as time goes on. I am hoping that if they ever finish the rollout of ipv6 that the bunch of hijacked ip ranges are denied an allocation of ipv6 addresses. It should at least cut down on some of the crap. Thing is the people doing this are too mentally retarded to remove addresses that they continually can not access. They can not get on my server, so the cannot attempt to hack or send mail from it. China and the Usa are two of the worst countries for having the attacks. I find it very difficult to believe that there are that many compromised servers around the world. More likely it is staff members of the isp's/webhosting companies that are doing the spamming and managing to cover their tracks enough to not loose their jobs. I have even paid to have all my personal details on the whois database suppressed. It only has the telephone number and contact details of the company masking it. I am paying $170usd per year to have this server. Regards, Christopher. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
