Re: [mailop] Anyone from Prodigy

2024-05-29 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo@toad.social and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mail

Re: [mailop] (Mis)use of DKIM's length tag and it's impact on DMARC and BIMI

2024-05-18 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
specification already contains such exceptions, like DMARC quarantine policies that must be ignored if they include a pct value of less than 100, so this wouldn’t be completely new grounds. BIMI seems like a very gentle tool for operational pressure. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc

Re: [mailop] Does iCloud accept forwards?

2024-05-18 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
source, but you'd have to find out from them. Whatever they are doing is wrong. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo@toad.social and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire ___ mailop

Re: [mailop] (Mis)use of DKIM's length tag and it's impact on DMARC and BIMI

2024-05-18 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
suspects who keep on using it. Who uses it? I'm not seeing it at all in my recent personal "mail worth keeping" corpus except for one idiosyncratic case of a sender who always uses it with the full message length. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @

Re: [mailop] Reason for being listed at Spamhaus CSS and XBL unclear

2024-04-19 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
On 2024-04-19 at 07:21:47 UTC-0400 (Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:21:47 +0100) Sebastian Arcus via mailop is rumored to have said: On 18/04/2024 14:05, Marco Moock via mailop wrote: Am 18.04.2024 schrieb Bill Cole via mailop : I can't say that Spamhaus lists IPs that engage in the abusive practice

Re: [mailop] Reason for being listed at Spamhaus CSS and XBL unclear

2024-04-18 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
- as it would be useful to narrow down a bit what am I looking for. ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo@toad.social and many

Re: [mailop] Reason for being listed at Spamhaus CSS and XBL unclear

2024-04-18 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
indistinguishable from nearby compromised Windows machines and IoT devices. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo@toad.social and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire ___ mailop

Re: [mailop] Anyone from Google - Sudden Gmail bounces??

2024-03-31 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
gs, so this is likely to indicate that both organizations have independently deemed your IP to be badly behaving. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available Fo

Re: [mailop] Debt Collection Client Email Servers

2024-03-25 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
slightly resembles a service that anyone in the private sector is already trying to do for a profit. Any such proposal raises screams of "SOCIALISM!" which basically kills anything. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com

Re: [mailop] Debt Collection Client Email Servers

2024-03-25 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
of some people who arguably deserve it and some whom you can only hope will be sympathetic and not report it as spam. Hopefully some day the dysfunction will provide enough negative feedback to make what you are doing illegal instead of unavoidable. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc

Re: [mailop] [spamhaus] de-listing requests successful, but only for a couple of days.

2024-03-16 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
the profitable market for usable addresses. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https

Re: [mailop] Ubuntu Noble/24.04 - TLS 1.0, 1.1 and DTLS 1.0 are forcefully disabled

2024-03-13 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
a STARTTLS on the same TCP connection. The plaintext fallback behavior that I'm aware of in MTAs' SMTP clients is by way of a fresh connection. Some have done so poorly at times and I'm not sure how good fallback is across the class. I don't think any MUA client knows how to fall back in any way. --

Re: [mailop] Ubuntu Noble/24.04 - TLS 1.0, 1.1 and DTLS 1.0 are forcefully disabled

2024-03-13 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
that essentially all of the legit mail I see using TLSv1.[01] bears indicators of JavaMail. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire ___ mailop

Re: [mailop] Ubuntu Noble/24.04 - TLS 1.0, 1.1 and DTLS 1.0 are forcefully disabled

2024-03-13 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
On 2024-03-13 at 10:56:53 UTC-0400 (Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:56:53 +0100) Marco Moock via mailop is rumored to have said: Am 13.03.2024 um 10:43:27 Uhr schrieb Bill Cole via mailop: Without one, disabling them is a cargo-cult praxis that is worse than any false sense of security provided

Re: [mailop] Ubuntu Noble/24.04 - TLS 1.0, 1.1 and DTLS 1.0 are forcefully disabled

2024-03-13 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
to oblivious peers who can't do TLSv1.2 or better. It is a disservice to end recipients for a pair of MTAs to fall back to plaintext when both ends could in principle negotiate a rock-solid ciphersuite with TLSv1.0 or TLSv1.1. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @gru

Re: [mailop] % in SRS ?

2024-03-08 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
that are NOT appropriate for SRS. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] freenet.de routing issues anyone? (Cloudflare-OVH issue?)

2024-03-08 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
/listinfo/mailop -- Stefano Bagnara Apache James/jDKIM/jSPF VOXmail/Mosaico.io/VoidLabs ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many

Re: [mailop] Filter out emoji from email adresses

2024-03-07 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
of lists, including this one. Right, but they do not use the SMTPUTF8/EAI mechanism (raw UTF8 characters) but instead use the long-established MIME mechanism for encoding non-ASCII header fields using Base64 or Quoted-Printable. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA

Re: [mailop] MTA-STS errors?

2024-03-06 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
On 2024-03-06 at 13:35:10 UTC-0500 (Wed, 6 Mar 2024 13:35:10 -0500) Michael W. Lucas via mailop is rumored to have said: On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 01:17:43PM -0500, Bill Cole via mailop wrote: Call me crazy, but if the policy changes on sub-day cadence, I don't think I want that email anyway

Re: [mailop] MTA-STS errors?

2024-03-06 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
day, it's not Policy. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Filter out emoji from email adresses

2024-03-06 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
bytes in headers unless you have a narrowly limited audience of receivers. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire ___ mailop mailing list mailop

Re: [mailop] Anyone from Yahoo?

2024-03-06 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
ever was school progress reports. Students are often motivated to report them as spam, which occasionally will convince a mail provider to filter them. And many providers who don't filter them will still send a steady stream of spam reports of them in their FBLs and instill a sense of impending

Re: [mailop] Any Apple guys, with knowledge of their networks shed some light on this IP Space?

2024-03-05 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
00 Beautiful British Columbia, Canada ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currentl

Re: [mailop] PTR check mechanism / gmail

2024-03-04 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
figuration is requiring that an IP have a PTR (equivalent to Postfix's "reject_unknown_reverse_client_hostname") and sometimes people figure out ways to require more (e.g. that the name resolve to something.) -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA

Re: [mailop] Outgoing Spam from Microsoft IPs

2024-02-19 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
Not at all. If the big mailbox providers switch and break mail to them from non-compliant senders, everything else still functions normally. No need for any sort of "flag day." -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addr

Re: [mailop] Verifying receipients?

2024-02-16 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
. The same goes for sender verification. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org

Re: [mailop] Why is mail forwarding such a mess?

2024-02-12 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
On 2024-02-12 at 14:23:39 UTC-0500 (Mon, 12 Feb 2024 20:23:39 +0100) Thomas Walter via mailop is rumored to have said: > Hey Bill, > > On 12.02.24 17:31, Bill Cole via mailop wrote: >> On 2024-02-12 at 07:13:13 UTC-0500 (Mon, 12 Feb 2024 13:13:13 +0100) >> Thomas Walter via

Re: [mailop] Why is mail forwarding such a mess?

2024-02-12 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
ttacks and improper diversion of mail with very little visibility. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital sig

Re: [mailop] problem setting up open-dmarc

2024-02-07 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
ot yet today. > You need it right now if you want to protect your communication against > forgeries. Not so much. DKIM and SPF are adequate for most senders. Arguably, SPF would suffice for most sending domains if it were not for transparent forwarding. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or b

Re: [mailop] DMARC on srs forwarding domains?

2024-02-02 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
for anyone other than the behemoths to support ARC in any meaningful way for the near term (0-5 years) and you will always (effectively... ) have sites rejecting on SPF failures out of misguided "principle." -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpyboz

Re: [mailop] [External] seeking a spamtrap milter

2024-01-23 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
right thing." > (and sometimes in addition to the presence > of an MX record when any or all of the defined MXes rejects their > attempts with 4yz {temporary} or 5yz {permanent} SMTP error codes). Very much NOT the right thing. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA

Re: [mailop] [External] seeking a spamtrap milter

2024-01-23 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
get email for your MTA so the milter "sees" the email. I don't believe that is true, since you can reject based on recipient addresses in the filter_recipient() subroutine, where you have both a current recipient and the client IP each time that it is called. -- Bill Cole b...@scc

Re: [mailop] Spamhaus contact?

2024-01-20 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
EDROP) that one can expect NO friendly traffic from. NO ONE should see any collateral damage from using DROP. UCEPROTECT L3 is an intentional collateral damage list. If one COULD use it as a router blocking list, one would not perceive the Internet to be functional. -- Bill Cole b

Re: [mailop] Anyone else noticing an increase in spam from Office365 distribution lists?

2024-01-19 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
orporations who have had policies of rejecting any meeting invites with .ics files unless the sender is whitelisted. Too many people do not expect random strangers "inviting" them to meetings and have their settings configured to auto-accept invites. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.c

Re: [mailop] Spamhaus contact?

2024-01-19 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
http://www.infinitemho.fi/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop -- Bill Cole b

Re: [mailop] Spamhaus contact?

2024-01-19 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
-small percentage of known DNS block lists could not be even marginally described as "real time". Well, there is also that... Graeme (wearing massive floppy felt pedant hat with huge gold tassels attached to make the point) :) Excellence in headgear. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.co

Re: [mailop] o365 outbound senders.. Strange Failures sending .. widespread reports

2023-12-19 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
mail=1 rcpt=1 data=1 quit=1 commands=7 EHLO after STARTTLS is normal and proper. See the RFC. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: [mailop] ECDSA DKIM validation?

2023-12-18 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
ECDSA DKIM yet without ruining people's day? Exclusively? Not yet. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire ___ mailop mailing list mailop@m

Re: [mailop] Merry Christmas from Google?

2023-12-17 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
e earliest discussions that resulted in SPF. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.

Re: [mailop] Hotmail complains about their own mail

2023-12-16 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
and wait for complaints. A large fraction of such systems never handle a legitimate message for the domains to which they send their garbage. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: [mailop] Another very strange microsoft originated email??

2023-12-07 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
re solely those of the author and are not intended to represent those of the company. ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and man

Re: [mailop] Convincing clients of the importance of eMail recipient consent for mailing list subscriptions

2023-11-28 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
age) email, the cost of being blocked can be the whole business. The more you handle typical conversational email, the less you can tolerate practices that lead to blocking. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not

Re: [mailop] Convincing clients of the importance of eMail recipient consent for mailing list subscriptions

2023-11-27 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
this is only feasible for similar operations where mailing list hosting is not a free-standing offering, but only something we offer to our mailbox customers. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently

Re: [mailop] Historical spam loads - was Re: Google rate-limiting more aggressively than usual?

2023-11-19 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
On 2023-11-19 at 14:02:04 UTC-0500 (Sun, 19 Nov 2023 19:02:04 + (GMT)) Andrew C Aitchison via mailop is rumored to have said: On Sun, 19 Nov 2023, Bill Cole via mailop wrote: On 2023-11-19 at 06:59:37 UTC-0500 (Sun, 19 Nov 2023 12:59:37 +0100) Alessandro Vesely via mailop is rumored

Re: [mailop] Google rate-limiting more aggressively than usual?

2023-11-19 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if some sites still have a 90%+ spam burden. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire ___ mailop mailing list

Re: [mailop] If one signature is good, 72 signatures must be better

2023-11-16 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
with 72 signatures. It's obviously a bug, but it's a rather strange bug. My bet is that it's a line-break error. Some text file somewhere is missing LFs -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available

Re: [mailop] How to handle hostname and PTR mismatch?

2023-10-27 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
e sites WILL refuse mail based on such absurdities and no amount of RFC-lawyering will change their minds. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire __

Re: [mailop] fastmail and sender score snafu

2023-10-09 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
business organizations where you could reasonably expect an outage starting on Friday night would not even be noticed until Monday morning. I'm pretty sure my first IDA/KJS Sendmail machine had a 5-day queue lifetime, as I had no clue how to change it... -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc

Re: [mailop] Zero-day RCE for exim - whacky stats?

2023-10-02 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
an artifact of Exim being used so widely in cPanel. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https

Re: [mailop] Gmail says "Message bounced due to organizational settings."

2023-09-26 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
ndled by 1 aspmx.l.google.com. arxiv.org mail is handled by 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com. arxiv.org mail is handled by 5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com. So, clearly the problem is somewhere at Google... -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com

Re: [mailop] Amazon SES using SAME sender Domain for multiple customer?

2023-09-25 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
to create external pressure for Amazon & their customers to tighten up their practices... (I've been doing my part in that effort for a couple years, but I've been rejecting nearly nothing from SES in recent months.) -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpy

Re: [mailop] Authentication Bounces by Gmail

2023-09-19 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
's c=simple/simple DKIM signature. Yes, I'm sure it does. Using simple/simple canonicalization is not for people who want robust DKIM signatures. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Curre

Re: [mailop] Authentication Bounces by Gmail

2023-09-19 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
ahead of signing.) -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Google - Messages with multiple addresses in From: header are not accepted.

2023-09-18 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
generating broken email. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo

Re: [mailop] Increase of SSL/TLS errors

2023-09-12 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
regards, Camille Le 12/09/2023 à 00:26, Bill Cole via mailop a écrit : On 2023-09-11 at 17:05:00 UTC-0400 (Mon, 11 Sep 2023 23:05:00 +0200) Camille - Clean Mailbox via mailop is rumored to have said: Dear co-listers, I'm seeing an increase of SSL/TLS errors for incoming emails to our service over

Re: [mailop] Increase of SSL/TLS errors

2023-09-11 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
certificate. You should remove any reference to the 'DST Root CA X3' certificate. You may also need to change how you maintain your certificate. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: [mailop] New Validity policy for paid FBL (ARF)

2023-09-11 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
want their service, they will extract value from you one way or another to get it. I should probably add that I would be entirely willing to experience an Internet without B2C ESPs. It's nothing personal, it's just that I've never been convinced that their existence isn't an attractive nui

Re: [mailop] hotmail.com SPF forgot IPv6

2023-08-22 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
und the word "policy" The default attribute does not advise anyone what to do, it simply expresses a vague judgment by the domain owner of how complete & reliable the SPF record is. (I'm not saying one should pay a lot of attention to the policy, but it's a policy.) It's policy-esque.

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

2023-07-13 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
On 2023-07-13 at 12:06:45 UTC-0400 (Thu, 13 Jul 2023 11:06:45 -0500) Grant Taylor via mailop is rumored to have said: On 7/13/23 10:49 AM, Bill Cole via mailop wrote: It's not at all logically hard to meet that arbitrary requirement, you just need a zone cut everywhere you have a MX record

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

2023-07-13 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
t was entirely the invention of the Big Brains at Yahoo, the place that helped give us the ridiculous fragility of DKIM... -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire __

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

2023-07-13 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
Zone files are very small and numerous. *Logistically* changing an existing zone with many MXs for subdomains to that model could be a serious chore. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Availabl

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

2023-07-13 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
On 2023-07-12 at 18:53:31 UTC-0400 (Wed, 12 Jul 2023 15:53:31 -0700) Michael Peddemors via mailop is rumored to have said: On 2023-07-12 12:53, Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop wrote: Most of regular consumer email users don't have any reason for this. As Bill Cole, whom I was replying to, wrote

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

2023-07-12 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
customers, and their prospective customers who need to know that their spam is authentic. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire ___ mailop mailing l

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

2023-07-11 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
Internet, an A will do but you really want an MX. Primarily because if you don't, it may confuse and distract people who should know better, and generate LONG mailing list threads. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses

Re: [mailop] SPF +all considered harmful

2023-07-11 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
On 2023-07-11 at 13:49:32 UTC-0400 (Tue, 11 Jul 2023 19:49:32 +0200) Benny Pedersen via mailop is rumored to have said: > Bill Cole via mailop skrev den 2023-07-11 19:01: >> On 2023-07-11 at 11:08:23 UTC-0400 (Tue, 11 Jul 2023 17:08:23 +0200) >> Benny Pedersen via mailop >&g

Re: [mailop] SPF +all considered harmful

2023-07-11 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
t; mechanisms of Sendmail and Postfix. This practice, *without SRS*, is still the most widespread form of forwarding individual addresses to other individual addresses. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Cu

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

2023-07-11 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
, beyond simply protecting the contents of email. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https

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

2023-07-11 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
. Hobbyists can live with not delivering to GMail or MS, companies that need to work with other businesses via email cannot. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

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

2023-07-11 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
appears to reject mail solely for that reason and inbound mail works perfectly. It is, after all, the way email was originally designed to work. However, I admit my evidence for that is ~2y old. I wouldn't *intentionally* allow an actively mailing domain to rely on A fallback... -- Bill

Re: [mailop] Cannot talk to Sharedband

2023-06-24 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
machine's network circumstances. IOW: I don't think it's a case of MS blocking Google or any Google network per se. But that's just a hunch... -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: [mailop] greylisting, SendGrid is deleting your mail

2023-06-24 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
bots. Do you have any idea how many of those would be tripped up by a Postfix-style banner delay? -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: [mailop] SendGrid is deleting your mail

2023-06-24 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
harmless cute tricks like banner weirdness, it is intentional shotgun breakage that requires constant tuning. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: [mailop] SendGrid is deleting your mail

2023-06-23 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
s of email. If you have evidence that it is actually worthwhile for you, you could just say that. My experience includes evidence that it is not. Maybe that has changed in 2023, but I doubt it. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scc

Re: [mailop] SendGrid is deleting your mail

2023-06-23 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
think that you are so big that the rules can't apply to you. That you are somehow different and special. You are wrong. You're nothing special. You're just big. Get over yourselves. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com

Re: [mailop] [EXTERNAL] Re: Strange mail delivery from microsoft

2023-06-20 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
s think they should do, especially if it possible for them to perceive such deadbeats to be competitors. If you run a mail server, Microsoft will at some point treat you as a competitor rather than as a partner. Do not expect anything else. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.

Re: [mailop] Port 25 Pingback?

2023-06-16 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
se positives and has become increasingly risky to the checker's reputation and error-prone over the years. A "legally mandated" sender should probably expect some of that to still be in use, because the long tail of mail admin incompetence is a thing... -- Bill Cole b...@sccon

Re: [mailop] DMARC check case sensitive domains

2023-06-13 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
OK at mail-tester.com with the envelope from address lowercased. As one self-appointed victim* of their chronic incompetence, I feel compelled to beg you: don't waste your time trying to figure out what mail-tester.com is doing wrong. *: SpamAssassin committer/PMC member -- Bill Cole b

Re: [mailop] DMARC check case sensitive domains

2023-06-13 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
at you must do, your server=your rules, but I can only say: "EWWW!" -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire ___ mailop mailin

Re: [mailop] Noticed Google now suggests changing envelope sender for forwarding

2023-06-01 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
ndmail and Postfix DO NOT change the envelope sender for mail forwarded via alias or .forward mechanisms. That's the whole reason SRS tools exist. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available Fo

Re: [mailop] push and pull, Microsoft Office365 not rejecting emails when instructed so by SPF recored?

2023-05-30 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
legal issues they might have with liability for uncertain electronic delivery by having customers 'agree' to click-thru terms specifically for electronic delivery. It's never something they do by default. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many

Re: [mailop] UCEPROTECT L2 fact

2023-05-22 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
op.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com add

Re: [mailop] UCEPROTECT L2 fact

2023-05-22 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo

Re: [mailop] Massive botnet going off today?

2023-05-15 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
nges where I've seen suspect traffic from many sources recently and deemed them generally disposable. e.g. I'll likely never have a legit packet from any random nameless ChinaNet IP, so why waste TCP on any of them? -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpyboz

Re: [mailop] Massive botnet going off today?

2023-05-13 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
a large scale event that we're all seeing. ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses

Re: [mailop] Thoughts on envelope address local-part length limits

2023-05-12 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
On 2023-05-12 at 16:52:38 UTC-0400 (Fri, 12 May 2023 13:52:38 -0700) Brandon Long via mailop is rumored to have said: On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 8:54 AM Bill Cole via mailop wrote: On 2023-05-12 at 09:40:14 UTC-0400 (Fri, 12 May 2023 13:40:14 +) Paul Gregg via mailop is rumored to have

Re: [mailop] Thoughts on envelope address local-part length limits

2023-05-12 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
to work, you won't put out-of-spec addresses where they might be replied to. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire ___ mailop mailing list

Re: [mailop] United Airlines / mileageplus DNS/rDNS mismatch issue

2023-05-09 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
results that are "generic." -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.or

Re: [mailop] AT has eliminated their DNSBL team?

2023-05-09 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
Just to close this loop: I resent my report this evening and got an autoreply as normal, so I guess AT hasn't gone Twitter on us... On 2023-05-06 at 16:53:58 UTC-0400 (Sat, 06 May 2023 16:53:58 -0400) Bill Cole via mailop is rumored to have said: For unknown reasons, I got one

Re: [mailop] PSL: SOA record per subdomain required?

2023-05-07 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
doing something wrong. I see 74 domains listed there ending in .de. The specific ones in question start at line 12026. Which precisely matches my current state of knowledge. `grep '^\S*\.de$' public_suffix_list.txt` is enlightening. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA

Re: [mailop] Yahoo: SOA record per subdomain required?!

2023-05-07 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
this to domain tails on the PSL, that at least limits the damage and makes some sense. People possibly harmed in that case can at least address the problem directly themselves. It would be nice if Yahoo clarified what they are actually doing. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc

Re: [mailop] Yahoo: SOA record per subdomain required?!

2023-05-06 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
th a fresh address in billmail.scconsult.com that Yahoo accepts and delivers (some) mail from domains that are not at a zone cut. This is despite what their postmaster page says and their support confirmed to you. Maybe someone with a clue has reversed the extremely bad policy? -- B

[mailop] AT has eliminated their DNSBL team?

2023-05-06 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
ipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table Last-Attempt-Date: Sat, 6 May 2023 16:04:31 -0400 That's their Proofpoint inbound filter being told by an actual AT machine that the address they tell people to mail does not exist. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc.

Re: [mailop] Receivers behavior when seeing a new header

2023-05-04 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
header in any way that tried to interpret its meaning beyond correlating existence and basic validity with spamminess. The semantic content of that header is strictly MUA-fodder. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses

Re: [mailop] DKIM with 3072-bit or 4096-bit RSA signatures

2023-04-26 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
tive signer has poor key management. If the putative signer uses 512-bit keys rotated hourly, they might as well be publishing the keys. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currentl

Re: [mailop] SPF behavior on email forwarding

2023-04-14 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
customers in 5 minutes if they have a valid credit card number. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop

Re: [mailop] SPF behavior on email forwarding

2023-04-14 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
addresses to facilitate spamming, traditional transparent forwarding had to go. SPF is a tool for killing it off. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Availabl

Re: [mailop] mailgun anybody? (variable sender address) time

2023-03-27 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
referring to? # dig _domainkey.lena.kiev.ua ; <<>> DiG 9.18.12 <<>> _domainkey.lena.kiev.ua ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 11967 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1 -- B

Re: [mailop] mailgun anybody? (variable sender address) time

2023-03-24 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
rs who do not retry. They are harmless (aside from delay) for mail being haqndlked by a proper MTA that implements a MX fallback and retry strategy. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Availabl

Re: [mailop] Hotmail will start rejecting messages that fail DMARC

2023-03-24 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
forwarding the message, nothing you do to the envelope sender can (or should) save it. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire ___ mailop mailing

Re: [mailop] sender domain reputation

2023-03-22 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
ist mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com

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