[mailop] Mail Sending Self-Test Platform

2023-02-27 Thread Tobias Fiebig via mailop
Heho, after our paper on mail sending configurations some time ago [1], we now glued that together into a self-service site: https://email-security-scans.org/ I'd be happy to hear your feedback, especially if things do not work as expected (then, your test ID and ideally stored emails would be

Re: [mailop] Gmail blocking of good customer

2023-02-27 Thread Michael Orlitzky via mailop
On Mon, 2023-02-27 at 15:45 -0700, Luke via mailop wrote: > > With that said, given the responses in this thread, we will be taking > a close look at the few rules we have in place where we retry 5xx and > see if A.) the rules are still being hit at all, and B.) are these > retries still

Re: [mailop] Intuit directly spaming

2023-02-27 Thread Atro Tossavainen via mailop
> Interesting to me Atro said this is sendgrid. I saw sendgrid format > sender address but headers do no show any sendgrid. So now its > harder to give due suspision on sendgrid because they give full > infrastructure to rent for other domain like intuit? Yes. Full headers (munged of course) and

Re: [mailop] Intuit directly spaming

2023-02-27 Thread Atro Tossavainen via mailop
> > harder to give due suspision on sendgrid because they give full It's actually kind of easy. Is the IP announced by AS11377? Yes? -> SendGrid. -- Atro Tossavainen, Founder, Partner Koli-Lõks OÜ (reg. no. 12815457, VAT ID EE101811635) Tallinn, Estonia tel. +372-5883-4269,

Re: [mailop] Intuit directly spaming

2023-02-27 Thread Mike Hillyer via mailop
The examples I have received are indeed doing that, using a real QB account to send invoices with fraudulent payloads. -Original Message- From: mailop On Behalf Of Faisal Misle via mailop Sent: Monday, February 27, 2023 2:06 PM To: mailop List Subject: Re: [mailop] Intuit directly

Re: [mailop] Gmail blocking of good customer

2023-02-27 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Kelly Molloy via mailop said: >On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 7:14 PM Matt Palmer via mailop > wrote: >> That's something to talk to your ESP about. They're in charge of retrying. > >Christine *is* the ESP. She's at Shopify, but Sendgrid is the ESP. Perhaps she can confirm with

[mailop] Reminder, Best Practices and PTR records..

2023-02-27 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Usually I have to remind ESP's on this.. If you have a domain in the PTR record, make sure that it has an associated URL for the domain, or redirects to your company website. Maybe someone can help me, but there was a M3AAWG Best practices document that covered this.. Today, (hey Ken, can

Re: [mailop] Gmail blocking of good customer

2023-02-27 Thread Michael Orlitzky via mailop
On Mon, 2023-02-27 at 04:55 +, Denny Watson via mailop wrote: > > All I have said (which you had conveniently redacted) is that RFC5321 > leaves the door open to process bounces differently should the > sending MTA be able to determine the reason for non-delivery.[1] > > ... > > [1] See my

Re: [mailop] Gmail blocking of good customer

2023-02-27 Thread Luke via mailop
I can't go into the specifics in great detail, but I want to make it clear that these are rare edge cases. We aren't out there retrying 5xx every chance we get because we don't care about being a good citizen. These are small scale, often short-lived exceptions where retrying a very specific 5xx

Re: [mailop] Mail Sending Self-Test Platform

2023-02-27 Thread Mechiel Lukkien via mailop
On 2/27/23 12:59, Tobias Fiebig via mailop wrote: after our paper on mail sending configurations some time ago [1], we now glued that together into a self-service site: https://email-security-scans.org/ I'd be happy to hear your feedback, especially if things do not work as expected Nice!

Re: [mailop] Intuit directly spaming

2023-02-27 Thread Atro Tossavainen via mailop
On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 08:05:31PM +0100, Faisal Misle via mailop wrote: > I wonder if its the similar MO as PayPal, where they use Quickbooks accounts > to send fake invoices... so it uses the legitimate QB stream Right on the money, that is exactly what it is. -- Atro Tossavainen, Founder,

Re: [mailop] Gmail blocking of good customer

2023-02-27 Thread Luke via mailop
For better or worse, *not *retrying *some *4xx is even easier to justify. Here are a few massive examples. 421 4.7.1 Message permanently deferred: less than 1% delivered rate after 32 retries. This is across 100s of millions of messages, thousands of unique senders, and thousands of IPs, looking

Re: [mailop] Gmail blocking of good customer

2023-02-27 Thread Michael Orlitzky via mailop
On Mon, 2023-02-27 at 18:53 -0700, Luke via mailop wrote: > For better or worse, *not *retrying *some *4xx is even easier to > justify. > Here are a few massive examples. > > 421 4.7.1 Message permanently deferred: > > 452 Sender Rejected: Keeping in mind that the RFC says not to use the text

Re: [mailop] Gmail blocking of good customer

2023-02-27 Thread Luke via mailop
Those possible (and likely) explanations for a few of the rejections are actually really insightful. It sounds like we agree that there are cases where 4xx should not be retried. That's progress! The question around the downside of queuing them up for a while is essentially 2-part. First, we send

Re: [mailop] Mail Sending Self-Test Platform

2023-02-27 Thread Tobias Fiebig via mailop
Heho, > The inevitable questions about how bad the issues are. I.e. what > could happen?: > - My ip4 and ip6 reverse DNS records are not DNSSEC-signed. I could > ask my hosting provider if they can sign them. Could there be a > reason not to? > - I'm not DKIM-signing the MIME-Version header

Re: [mailop] Gmail blocking of good customer

2023-02-27 Thread Kelly Molloy via mailop
On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 7:14 PM Matt Palmer via mailop wrote: > That's something to talk to your ESP about. They're in charge of retrying. Christine *is* the ESP. Kids these days. ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org