Re: [mailop] starttls-virginia.securing-email.com 34.227.19.103

2022-09-15 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
On 2022-09-15 at 18:16:43 UTC-0400 (15 Sep 2022 18:16:43 -0400) John Levine via mailop is rumored to have said: While looking at my mail logs, I see a whole lot of connections from this host. It does EHLO, then STARTTLS, then EHLO again, then disconnects. My mail server has a lot of different

Re: [mailop] The oligopoly has won.

2022-09-15 Thread Kai 'wusel' Siering via mailop
Moin, on 15.09.22 15:37, Gellner, Oliver via mailop wrote: […] The full blogpost can be read here: https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html To get back to the original topic: In my opinion many of the

Re: [mailop] two openssl (in OpenDKIM) questions for the masses

2022-09-15 Thread Michael Orlitzky via mailop
On Thu, 2022-09-15 at 14:44 -0700, Dan Mahoney (Gushi) via mailop wrote: > > * Does anyone know of an OS packager that's choosing to build with gnutls > instead of openssl. (It would simplify autoconf a lot to remove the > gnutls support, as there are AC macros for openssl, but not for gtls).

Re: [mailop] two openssl (in OpenDKIM) questions for the masses

2022-09-15 Thread Tim Düsterhus via mailop
Hi On 9/15/22 23:44, Dan Mahoney (Gushi) via mailop wrote: * Does anyone have an OS using openssl 3.0 as the default rather than the 1.1 branch, that we can test the mainline branch on? (We don't want access to your OS, just...to know which it is). Ubuntu 22.04 LTS uses OpenSSL 3. See also:

[mailop] starttls-virginia.securing-email.com 34.227.19.103

2022-09-15 Thread John Levine via mailop
While looking at my mail logs, I see a whole lot of connections from this host. It does EHLO, then STARTTLS, then EHLO again, then disconnects. My mail server has a lot of different names and I can see that it is trying them all. Their host is at Amazon. My guess is this is another lame student

Re: [mailop] Reject vs spam folders

2022-09-15 Thread Paul Smith via mailop
On 15/09/2022 22:51, Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop wrote: I already described what I think is best. Only *mark* messages as spam and let the users decide if they want *themselves* filter the marked messages into the spam folder. Don't *preconfigure* such filtering for them. OK. I'm sorry for

[mailop] two openssl (in OpenDKIM) questions for the masses

2022-09-15 Thread Dan Mahoney (Gushi) via mailop
All, I'm attempting to get a point release of OpenDKIM out that should include ecc key support (it's been in our develop branch for a while). In doing the cleanup, I also have had to modernize it to play nice with modern versions of autoconf, and the code to detect openssl versions also

Re: [mailop] Reject vs spam folders

2022-09-15 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop
Dnia 15.09.2022 o godz. 17:42:47 John Levine via mailop pisze: > > Speaking as a spammer, allow me to offer my deepest thanks for your help > at tuning my techniques to evade your filters. I knew that someone would bring up that argument ;) -- Regards, Jaroslaw Rafa r...@rafa.eu.org --

Re: [mailop] Reject vs spam folders

2022-09-15 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop
Dnia 15.09.2022 o godz. 22:34:50 Paul Smith via mailop pisze: > > Arguing that "a rejection is better" makes sense *when the sender is human, > technically competent and understands how email works*. Most senders don't > fall into that category. It's not me who argued that rejection is better.

Re: [mailop] Reject vs spam folders

2022-09-15 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Cyril - ImprovMX via mailop said: >-=-=-=-=-=- >-=-=-=-=-=- > >So basically, what would be interesting to have is both : land the email in >the spam folder but notify the sender about if, maybe via an ARF report ? Speaking as a spammer, allow me to offer my deepest thanks for

Re: [mailop] Reject vs spam folders

2022-09-15 Thread Paul Smith via mailop
On 15/09/2022 21:30, Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop wrote: folders. If it actually worked this way, spam folders wouldn't be any issue. But this assumption failed: the reality is that 99% of users don't check their spam folders at all, so directing a message to spam folder effectively equals

Re: [mailop] Reject vs spam folders

2022-09-15 Thread Grant Taylor via mailop
On 9/15/22 2:51 PM, Cyril - ImprovMX via mailop wrote: So basically, what would be interesting to have is both : land the email in the spam folder but notify the sender about if, maybe via an ARF report ? I think this would be a slippery slope and leak information, akin to "your password is

Re: [mailop] Reject vs spam folders

2022-09-15 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop
Dnia 15.09.2022 o godz. 22:51:29 Cyril - ImprovMX via mailop pisze: > So basically, what would be interesting to have is both : land the email in > the spam folder but notify the sender about if, maybe via an ARF report ? > That way, the event organizer or the one applying for a job would be able

Re: [mailop] Reject vs spam folders

2022-09-15 Thread Cyril - ImprovMX via mailop
So basically, what would be interesting to have is both : land the email in the spam folder but notify the sender about if, maybe via an ARF report ? That way, the event organizer or the one applying for a job would be able to notify the recipient about the email being in spam. Le jeu. 15 sept.

Re: [mailop] Reject vs spam folders

2022-09-15 Thread Matthew V via mailop
I'd love to know the research on this... 99% seems a bit far fetched. Homer Simpson once said, “Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forty per cent of all people know that.” ~MV On 2022-09-15 4:30 p.m., Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop wrote: the reality is that 99% of

Re: [mailop] Reject vs spam folders

2022-09-15 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop
Dnia 15.09.2022 o godz. 11:32:41 Jay Hennigan via mailop pisze: > > If recipients at least periodically scan the contents of the spam folder and > mark wanted mail, this avoids the need for the sender to communicate > out-of-band to deliver the original (and likely future) messages as would be >

Re: [mailop] Reject vs spam folders

2022-09-15 Thread Gellner, Oliver via mailop
> Am 15.09.2022 um 16:43 schrieb Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop : > > Dnia 15.09.2022 o godz. 16:06:22 Cyril - ImprovMX via mailop pisze: >> If I'm missing an email, I can simply check the Spam folder, which will be >> faster (and less tedious) than reaching out to the sender for him to send >>

Re: [mailop] mail provicers, not The oligopoly has won.

2022-09-15 Thread John Levine via mailop
>> The main issue is not really „cheap“. As I see it, as an SMB around the >> world, you really only have two choices: MS365 or Google. If you want all of the other stuff that Exchange provides, you're stuck with Microsoft but if you just want mail, there are plenty of other options. Two that I

Re: [mailop] Reject vs spam folders

2022-09-15 Thread Jay Hennigan via mailop
Interesting discussion. I use spam folders, and typically look at them daily as far as scanning sender and subject. One advantage of spam folders is that they can be used to train the algorithm. If wanted mail is found and flagged as "Not Spam" then that sender will be marked as safe and

[mailop] Gmail Pilot Program for Political Campaigns Opens for Business

2022-09-15 Thread Anne Mitchell via mailop
"Google’s Gmail Verified Sender Pilot Program for political campaigns is up and running, and political campaigns can now apply to be part of Google’s program which allows political campaign email to bypass the spam filter and be delivered directly to Gmail users’ inboxes, but only once unless

Re: [mailop] The oligopoly has won.

2022-09-15 Thread Anne Mitchell via mailop
> On Sep 15, 2022, at 7:37 AM, Gellner, Oliver via mailop > wrote: > >> https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html > > To get back to the original topic: In my opinion many of the claims made in > this

Re: [mailop] The oligopoly has won.

2022-09-15 Thread Anne Mitchell via mailop
> I am not a lawyer and it's difficult to discuss laws in a different language, > but according to the definitions of the Telecommunications Act, anyone who > provides e-mail services to others is obliged to maintain the secrecy of > telecommunications. For this reason, they may not evaluate

Re: [mailop] Reject vs spam folders

2022-09-15 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop
Dnia 15.09.2022 o godz. 16:06:22 Cyril - ImprovMX via mailop pisze: > If I'm missing an email, I can simply check the Spam folder, which will be > faster (and less tedious) than reaching out to the sender for him to send > another copy (hoping it wasn't an automated email, otherwise I'm good to >

Re: [mailop] Reject vs spam folders

2022-09-15 Thread Cyril - ImprovMX via mailop
> > I can second this It's really interesting to (try) to follow all the discussions about spam folder and in general if the oligopoly have truly won or not. In this case, I'm bringing my grain of salt regarding the utility of the spam folders. I believe they have a real purpose. The issue here

Re: [mailop] Reject vs spam folders

2022-09-15 Thread Benoit Panizzon via mailop
Hi > > First of all: I am fed up with telling people to look for missing emails in > > their spamfolders. > > > > If I have to check a spamfolder for false positives every day, I can just > > have them delivered to my inbox. The spamfolder does not have an advantage > > then. > > > > Your

Re: [mailop] The oligopoly has won.

2022-09-15 Thread Gellner, Oliver via mailop
> Am 12.09.2022 um 12:28 schrieb Evert Mouw via mailop : > > A guy named Carlos Fenolossa wrote on his blog: > > After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the > towel. The oligopoly has won. > > He also states: it's a risk for the industry > > The full blogpost can be

Re: [mailop] Reject vs spam folders

2022-09-15 Thread Gellner, Oliver via mailop
Hello, > Am 14.09.2022 um 16:55 schrieb Thomas Walter via mailop : >  > First of all: I am fed up with telling people to look for missing emails in > their spamfolders. > > If I have to check a spamfolder for false positives every day, I can just > have them delivered to my inbox. The

Re: [mailop] The oligopoly has won.

2022-09-15 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop
Dnia 15.09.2022 o godz. 09:52:30 Slavko via mailop pisze: > > I have idea (not implemented yet) to do server side personal SPAM > (bayes) filter, which will be trained automatically (based on move > to/from Junk folder) and will eg. negate delivery to Junk folder from > central filter. I did some

Re: [mailop] The oligopoly has won.

2022-09-15 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop
Dnia 15.09.2022 o godz. 09:07:23 Thomas Walter via mailop pisze: > > I'd love to use Ham/Spam filters, but in a very diverse environment > (university campus) with users of all languages that's a difficult task to > get right. In that case these filters clearly should be per-user. -- Regards,

Re: [mailop] The oligopoly has won.

2022-09-15 Thread Slavko via mailop
Hi, Dňa 15. septembra 2022 7:07:23 UTC používateľ Thomas Walter via mailop napísal: >I'd love to use Ham/Spam filters, but in a very diverse environment >(university campus) with users of all languages that's a difficult task to get >right. Sure, in case of big amount of different users,

Re: [mailop] The oligopoly has won.

2022-09-15 Thread Thomas Walter via mailop
On 15.09.22 03:04, Brandon Long via mailop wrote: FWIW in Germany it's against the law to not deliver an email after you have accepted it. (Not sure if it made it to EU law yet…) Even spamfolders are a grey area unless you make sure your user is not only using POP3 to access

Re: [mailop] The oligopoly has won.

2022-09-15 Thread Thomas Walter via mailop
On 14.09.22 18:12, William Kern via mailop wrote: On 9/14/2022 7:49 AM, Thomas Walter via mailop wrote: Your users opinion may also change if they can't get that automated 'forgot my password' reset link from a service they want to use. No, they'll contact support and tell them they don't

Re: [mailop] The oligopoly has won.

2022-09-15 Thread Thomas Walter via mailop
Moin, On 14.09.22 17:52, Slavko via mailop wrote: In my case, the false-positives are really rarely. Mostly when user meets new eshop (or so) with broken email system (and need to be WL -- but that seems to be improved in last year). The biggest problem, which i meet with false positives was

Re: [mailop] The oligopoly has won.

2022-09-15 Thread Eliot Lear via mailop
> On 14 Sep 2022, at 22:29, Matthias Leisi wrote: > > >> What I’ve said elsewhere is that what consumers, enterprises, and SMBs all >> need is a healthy selection of services from which to choose. The problem >> with the entry costs is that you have to be able to leverage a cloud >>