Re: [Mailman-Users] Fwd: Warming IP Addresses -- Gradually Increasing Email Volume

2017-02-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
The concerns Greg has are real. For example, a little over a year ago, the server mail.python.org that hosts over 300 @python.org lists (including this one) suffered a fatal hardware error on a Friday. With much scrambling, we were able to get everything up by the next Monday on a new server in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fwd: Warming IP Addresses -- Gradually Increasing Email Volume

2017-02-22 Thread Greg Sims
Thank you Alexander! Yes, DMARC/DKIM has been up and running for years now. You have some good ideas here. On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 8:28 AM, Alexander Neilson wrote: > Hi Craig > > > > >> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 7:23 AM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: > >> >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fwd: Warming IP Addresses -- Gradually Increasing Email Volume

2017-02-22 Thread Keith Seyffarth
> The communications I have with my ISP (Softlayer) is fine. The issue is with > AOL, Yahoo and others. These folks are impossible to communication with. That is much more understandable. If you want to slow the rate of outgoing messages, talk to Softlayer about possibly throttling your send

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fwd: Warming IP Addresses -- Gradually Increasing Email Volume

2017-02-22 Thread Alexander Neilson
Hi Craig > >> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 7:23 AM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: >> >> Greg Sims writes: >> >>> Thanks for your feedback Carl. Here is some additional information about >>> our environment. We have a single server in a commercial data center >>>

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fwd: Warming IP Addresses -- Gradually Increasing Email Volume

2017-02-22 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 2/22/2017 7:33 AM, Greg Sims wrote: The communications I have with my ISP (Softlayer) is fine. The issue is with AOL, Yahoo and others. These folks are impossible to communication with. Yes they are and there's not much to be done about it (issues with aol & yahoo have been covered

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fwd: Warming IP Addresses -- Gradually Increasing Email Volume

2017-02-22 Thread Greg Sims
Hey Keith, The communications I have with my ISP (Softlayer) is fine. The issue is with AOL, Yahoo and others. These folks are impossible to communication with. Greg On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 7:23 AM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: > Greg Sims writes: > > > Thanks

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fwd: Warming IP Addresses -- Gradually Increasing Email Volume

2017-02-22 Thread Keith Seyffarth
Greg Sims writes: > Thanks for your feedback Carl. Here is some additional information about > our environment. We have a single server in a commercial data center > (Softlayer). "Communicating" to the ISPs is a challenge. No reply to > email and no way to discuss

[Mailman-Users] Fwd: Warming IP Addresses -- Gradually Increasing Email Volume

2017-02-22 Thread Greg Sims
Thanks for your feedback Carl. Here is some additional information about our environment. We have a single server in a commercial data center (Softlayer). "Communicating" to the ISPs is a challenge. No reply to email and no way to discuss something like this on the telephone. The only answer