Re: [mailop] message attachments, was Guide for setting up a mail server ?

2023-07-14 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Grant Taylor via mailop said: >I'd be worried that some (web) MUAs would deal with multipart/digest >worse than they deal with message/rfc822 contained in the former. >Especially with the comment that someone made about inline vs attachment >disposition of the message/rfc822

Re: [mailop] message attachments, was Guide for setting up a mail server ?

2023-07-14 Thread Grant Taylor via mailop
On 7/14/23 9:22 PM, John Levine via mailop wrote: Well, sure. What do you think mailing list MIME digests are? I assume that you're referring to multipart/digest. The disadvantage is that a lot of mail systems, particularly popular webmail, deal poorly with embedded messages. Agreed. I'd

Re: [mailop] Guide for setting up a mail server ?

2023-07-14 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Michael Peddemors via mailop said: >On 2023-07-14 09:20, Slavko via mailop wrote: > >You all realize that the poor guy looking for a guide on how to set up >and email server long since left, you scared him to death with the >complexity.. Um, that was me who asked the question

Re: [mailop] message attachments, was Guide for setting up a mail server ?

2023-07-14 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Hans-Martin Mosner via mailop said: >Has anyone on this list tried forwarding (e.g. for ex-employees) via >attachment? Well, sure. What do you think mailing list MIME digests are? The disadvantage is that a lot of mail systems, particularly popular webmail, deal poorly with

Re: [mailop] Guide for setting up a mail server ?

2023-07-14 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Thomas Walter via mailop said: >Hey Michael, > >On 13.07.23 00:53, Michael Peddemors via mailop wrote: >> And yes, email forwarding will break.. but email forwarding remotely >> should be killed off anyways.. everyone can log into two accounts. > >Everyone has always been able to

Re: [mailop] Guide for setting up a mail server ?

2023-07-14 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop said: >Most of regular consumer email users don't have any reason for this. As Bill >Cole, whom I was replying to, wrote - nobody would try to impersonate you or >me in a phishing campaign for financial gain, because there won't be any. Since we all seem

Re: [mailop] Guide for setting up a mail server ?

2023-07-14 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 7/14/2023 11:21 AM, Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: Suggest you might consider changing the topic, if you want to argue the various nuances and complexities of SPF/DKIM/DMARC etc..? And break existing threading and avoid any ignore thread filters that people have put in place? That seems

Re: [mailop] Guide for setting up a mail server ?

2023-07-14 Thread Paul Smith via mailop
On 14 July 2023 18:24:45 Dave Crocker via mailop wrote: We need to 'encourage' people to run their own mail servers, not scare them away.. We also need to encourage people to do all the servicing for their car, to build their own house, and to grow their own food. Or we might take a

Re: [mailop] Guide for setting up a mail server ?

2023-07-14 Thread Grant Taylor via mailop
On 7/14/23 11:20 AM, Slavko via mailop wrote: Hi, Hi Slavko, Possible? Yes. Expected? Hard to tell... See latter. From which point of view? My experience is that hard and fast usually surfaces errors much closer to the time they are introduced. Conversely soft and slow usually causes

Re: [mailop] Guide for setting up a mail server ?

2023-07-14 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 7/14/2023 11:20 AM, Paul Smith wrote: On 14 July 2023 18:24:45 Dave Crocker via mailop wrote: We need to 'encourage' people to run their own mail servers, not scare them away.. We also need to encourage people to do all the servicing for their car, to build their own house, and to

Re: [mailop] Guide for setting up a mail server ?

2023-07-14 Thread Grant Taylor via mailop
On 7/14/23 11:31 AM, Michael Peddemors via mailop wrote: You all realize that the poor guy looking for a guide on how to set up and email server long since left, you scared him to death with the complexity.. Why does an active ongoing conversation between multiple parties need to stop

Re: [mailop] Guide for setting up a mail server ?

2023-07-14 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
We need to 'encourage' people to run their own mail servers, not scare them away.. We also need to encourage people to do all the servicing for their car, to build their own house, and to grow their own food. Or we might take a somewhat more modern view of life and deal pragmatically

Re: [mailop] Guide for setting up a mail server ?

2023-07-14 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
On 2023-07-14 09:20, Slavko via mailop wrote: You all realize that the poor guy looking for a guide on how to set up and email server long since left, you scared him to death with the complexity.. We need to 'encourage' people to run their own mail servers, not scare them away.. Suggest

Re: [mailop] Guide for setting up a mail server ?

2023-07-14 Thread Slavko via mailop
Hi, Dňa 13. júla 2023 23:42:15 UTC používateľ Grant Taylor via mailop napísal: >I absolutely think that it's quite possible to apply SPF independently >nowadays. Possible? Yes. Expected? Hard to tell... See latter. >Is it better to fail soft and slow or hard and fast? From which point of

Re: [mailop] [E] Re: AOL/Yahoo requiring SOA record for MAIL FROM domain name?

2023-07-14 Thread Marcel Becker via mailop
On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 8:54 AM Larry Smith via mailop wrote: > Hmmm, so are these simply connections this filter is blocking > or verifiable (high probability of spam source) spam connections? > Spam. Of course. > From the conversation it seems mom and pop's are the ones losing > "seems"

Re: [mailop] [E] Re: AOL/Yahoo requiring SOA record for MAIL FROM domain name?

2023-07-14 Thread Larry Smith via mailop
On Fri July 14 2023 09:26, Marcel Becker via mailop wrote: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 12:46 AM Thomas Mechtersheimer via mailop < > > mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > > Do you have any numbers that suggest that this specific method does > > filter a significant amount of spam which other filters would

Re: [mailop] [E] Re: AOL/Yahoo requiring SOA record for MAIL FROM domain name?

2023-07-14 Thread Grant Taylor via mailop
On 7/14/23 9:26 AM, Marcel Becker via mailop wrote: Yes, of course. We wouldn't do it otherwise. It's billions. And it kept getting worse. Can ~> will you share any rough (as in order of magnitude / log10) numbers? -- If so, please do. One of the things that I find so confusing about this

Re: [mailop] [E] Re: AOL/Yahoo requiring SOA record for MAIL FROM domain name?

2023-07-14 Thread Marcel Becker via mailop
On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 12:46 AM Thomas Mechtersheimer via mailop < mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > > Do you have any numbers that suggest that this specific method does filter > a significant amount of spam which other filters would not recognise? > Yes, of course. We wouldn't do it otherwise. It's

Re: [mailop] [E] Re: AOL/Yahoo requiring SOA record for MAIL FROM domain name?

2023-07-14 Thread Richard Clayton via mailop
In message <56b83491-6441-4d1e-a3ef-008da3311...@slavino.sk>, Slavko via mailop writes >When spammers are able to create proper DNS records directly used >in email authentification, what problem will be the SOA record for them? In order to have a domain with an SOA record they have to purchase

Re: [mailop] [E] Re: AOL/Yahoo requiring SOA record for MAIL FROM domain name?

2023-07-14 Thread Slavko via mailop
Dňa 14. júla 2023 7:16:43 UTC používateľ Thomas Mechtersheimer via mailop napísal: >I guess he means filtering based solely on the existance of a SOA record. Of course, that is what this thread about... Thanks to clarify behind me ;-) >Do you have any numbers that suggest that this specific

Re: [mailop] [E] Re: AOL/Yahoo requiring SOA record for MAIL FROM domain name?

2023-07-14 Thread Thomas Mechtersheimer via mailop
On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 11:31:48AM -0700, Marcel Becker via mailop wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 11:19 AM Slavko via mailop > wrote: > > Would not be more effective to not use technique prone to false > > positives? For both sides... > > So you mean not trying to filter spam or fight spammers

Re: [mailop] AOL/Yahoo requiring SOA record for MAIL FROM domain name?

2023-07-14 Thread Richard Clayton via mailop
In message <601b01c7-1475-32e0-5aba-e595272e9...@tnetconsulting.net>, Grant Taylor via mailop writes >My concern is that Yahoo / AOL isn't creating an arbitrary "every domain >must have an SOA record" and completely loosing sight of the fact that >SOAs belong to the /zone/ apex and are not