Azure is aware of the situation in general (yes, I have ben poking them with a stick), and the prospect of adding the whole Azure space to the PBL has been raised by "some", but this has not happened as of yet, and I am unsure what the optimal course of action would be, but that's not my call; Yeay!
It is the Policy of Microsoft that these IPs should be relaying traffic thru 3rd parties (or Office365?!) in order to get their mail out anyway, since the VMs could move around in IP address space, so a simple one IP block may not accomplish the desired result. If you were to block the traffic at your edge, it is possible that some legit user might complain, to which the official answer would be ... as described in the previous paragraph. Aloha, Michael. -- Michael J Wise | Microsoft | Spam Analysis | "Your Spam Specimen Has Been Processed." | Got the Junk Mail Reporting Tool ? -----Original Message----- From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of Michael Peddemors Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 8:39 AM To: mailop <mailop@mailop.org> Subject: [mailop] Out of curiosity, anyone see any VALID email coming from MS Cloud App servers? 40 spam messages in my spam folder overnight from: Return-Path: <www-d...@fgrtt8up-id8.cloudapp.net> X-PHP-Originating-Script: 0:lulu.php From: sainfo <sai...@sainfo.com.br> From: sandra.oliveira.76 <sandra.oliveira...@hotmail.com> From: sandra_fuc <sandra_...@hotmail.com> From: sales <sa...@bitpusher.com> And of course, from 40 different IP Addresses Mostly all Brazilian spam.. We have a simple spam rule to mark all of these messages, but getting to the point where considering rejecting all these. But we don't have any numbers on HAM from these servers, would like some feedback.. -- "Catch the Magic of Linux..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Peddemors, President/CEO LinuxMagic Inc. Visit us at https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.linuxmagic.com&data=01%7c01%7cmichael.wise%40microsoft.com%7cf0c24e2521ee43e4a69f08d36dea391f%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=qtwxMMbjTRl58AF3Bj2ZYjeavj4CgcTXwfbyM0m9zMA%3d @linuxmagic ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Wizard IT Company - For More Info https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.wizard.ca&data=01%7c01%7cmichael.wise%40microsoft.com%7cf0c24e2521ee43e4a69f08d36dea391f%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=%2fjcxGRAqJ0G7wX2jgFzOEF%2b6C9%2blevs%2fdcK%2fHlkBh0s%3d "LinuxMagic" a Registered TradeMark of Wizard Tower TechnoServices Ltd. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 604-682-0300 Beautiful British Columbia, Canada This email and any electronic data contained are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and are not intended to represent those of the company. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3a%2f%2fchilli.nosignal.org%2fcgi-bin%2fmailman%2flistinfo%2fmailop&data=01%7c01%7cmichael.wise%40microsoft.com%7cf0c24e2521ee43e4a69f08d36dea391f%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=BnV3UombXa5H3zUOXPcl16jSehZmD%2fauDW%2fzF3jZBns%3d _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop