[mailop] supp...@gmail.com doesn't accept email.
I tried sending email to supp...@gmail.com asking how to get access to a gmail account where 3rd party authorization doesn't work as the 3rd party is no longer available. The message bounced as an invalid account. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www2.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Mobile: (206) 947-5591 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc Each individual of the society has a right to be protected in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property no part of the property of any individual can, with justice, be taken from him, or applied to public uses, without his own consent -- John Adams ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
Re: [mailop] conventional wisdom, was Google rejects a TLS connection
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017, Laura Atkins wrote: > > On Mar 17, 2017, at 7:47 AM, John R Levine <[1]jo...@taugh.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Mar 2017, Eric Henson wrote: > > As a PCI compliant company, we have to go to great lengths to secure > any system that stores, processes, or transacts credit card data. If > that included our email servers, that would put every single mail > server, every single mail client, including smart phones, in scope > for our PCI audit. That would be a complete nightmare. > > I believe you, but that's not the question -- when's the last time > something bad actually happened due to sending credit card info by > mail? > I used to have my own credit card account and my card processor > demanded PCI compliance. About 1/4 of it was reasonable, 3/4 was cargo > cult stuff that mostly involved stuff like setting packet filters so > they couldn't probe ports that weren't going to answer anyway. > > Oh. We had our PCI compliance "security vendor" tell us we should open > up ports on our NAT so they could probe the NAT for vulnerabilities to > test the security of our > only-turned-on-to-connect-to-virtual-terminal-VM that we used for > credit card processing (not many of our customers pay with credit > cards). We finally "passed" the security sweep by blackholing their > scanning IP addresses. I've had PCI testers complain when they tried port scans on systems we monitor, and their IPs were blocked almost immediately. They couldn't understand active measures that detect attacks and take actions to prevent damage. They actually wanted me to remove the firewall so they could test. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 No nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. -- James Madison ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
Re: [mailop] Google Groups pain
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016, Steve Freegard wrote: > Hi all, > > We scan mail for a domain which uses Google Apps for Education and as > part of that they use Google Groups for communications to students. > > Does anyone have any idea why when someone sends a message to group > 'all_staff_and_stude...@domain.com' that Google insists on sending a > single message per-recipient from a host pool instead of sending a > single message to multiple groups of recipients (like 50-100 recipients > or so)? Others have answered this. > Currently if someone sends a message with a 2Mb attachment we then see > ~6Gb of traffic back. It's made worse by the fact that if a user is on > several groups and those groups are members of other groups, they get > the same message 3 times (Google appears to discard the duplicates, we > still receive them though). It's like a big amplification attack for > every message... Instead of sending 2MB attachments, how about sending a link? This is easy with at least one webmail program, horde, which copies the attachment to the horde server. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 Politicians should be limited to two terms, one in office and one in jail. -- Unknown ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
Re: [mailop] Mail accepted by outlook.com/hotmail.com disappears.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016, Michael Rathbun wrote: ... >An elephant superficially resembles a mouse. There are enormous structural >differences. An elephant is a mil-spec mouse. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. -- Frederic Bastiat, The Law ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
Re: [mailop] Yahoo DMARC changes - Proxying SMTP auth for freemail users
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016, Jay Hennigan wrote: ... > The end result will be that the freemail account user will get locked > out or the account will be shut down. User will then blame the ESP for > disrupting his "business" email address. I can't see this without thinking of one of my favorite Dilbert cartoons. "But your e-mail address reveals your newbie identity. You're probably a goat herder or a cartoonist". At the time I think Scott Adams address as <scottad...@aol.com>. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist -- Joseph Sobran ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
