Re: [mailop] Massive bounce report campaign

2022-11-23 Thread Cyril - ImprovMX via mailop
I'd love to be able to drop them, but the situation is made in a way that we can not do anything: That user configured their bounce domain to pass through us, but we didn't send their bouncing email in the first place. they use another service for that. As long as they point their bounce domain

Re: [mailop] SPF (and other email security protocols) Survey

2022-11-23 Thread Tobias Fiebig via mailop
Heho, > Please, give us the IP ranges these clowns are using so we can block all > traffic from them. Not sure which 'clowns' you refer to; If this is about the sum of researchers under the mechanics of current academia which might release crappy measurements to the public, I sadly lack such a

Re: [mailop] SPF (and other email security protocols) Survey

2022-11-23 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Tobias Fiebig via mailop said: >My argument was that it is hardly possible to gain a sufficient understanding >of many protocols to be able to thoroughly design network >measurements while accounting for all possible harms within the time available >for a PhD. I happen to have

Re: [mailop] SPF (and other email security protocols) Survey

2022-11-23 Thread Tobias Fiebig via mailop
Hello John, > So if they were competemnt and ethical, tney would stop and find people to > work with who understand the issues so they can do research that is not > abusive and could have useful results. Unfortunately, as we have seen, they > are neither. I personally believe (and sincerely

Re: [mailop] [EXTERNAL] Re: Contact at Outlook?

2022-11-23 Thread Michael Wise via mailop
... From time to time. If it can't be handled with the IP delisting form, it's going to be very difficult for an external party to get a hold of someone in an org that handles billions of emails a day. And I'm not someone who can do anything about such issues as a general rule. Aloha,

Re: [mailop] SPF (and other email security protocols) Survey

2022-11-23 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Tobias Fiebig via mailop said: >Yes, I do, see Footnote ** of my previous mail; But to recap: It is a complex >problem between how academia is setup, what it incentivizes, what >it requires, what it rewards, and who does network measurement research >(usually people without

Re: [mailop] Contact at Outlook?

2022-11-23 Thread Atro Tossavainen via mailop
On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 04:01:30PM -0600, Jarland Donnell via mailop wrote: > Assuming that doesn't pan out, can you file an abuse complaint with > their DNS provider? Sure can't hurt anything. Oddly enough Microsoft's DNS provider is... Microsoft. Microsoft has an employee participating on this

Re: [mailop] Contact at Outlook?

2022-11-23 Thread Cyril - ImprovMX via mailop
That's a good idea ! I will do that ! Thank you ! Le mer. 23 nov. 2022, 23:10, Jarland Donnell via mailop a écrit : > Assuming that doesn't pan out, can you file an abuse complaint with > their DNS provider? Sure can't hurt anything. > > On 2022-11-23 13:12, Cyril - ImprovMX via mailop wrote:

Re: [mailop] Contact at Outlook?

2022-11-23 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Assuming that doesn't pan out, can you file an abuse complaint with their DNS provider? Sure can't hurt anything. On 2022-11-23 13:12, Cyril - ImprovMX via mailop wrote: Hi everyone , I'm hoping that someone will be able to put me in contact with someone working at Outlook. We are still

[mailop] Contact at Outlook?

2022-11-23 Thread Cyril - ImprovMX via mailop
Hi everyone , I'm hoping that someone will be able to put me in contact with someone working at Outlook. We are still having a really bad issues regarding our previous discussion on having a lot of bounces and I'm hoping to have some help from someone ar Outlook. Thank you ! Best, Cyril

Re: [mailop] SPF (and other email security protocols) Survey

2022-11-23 Thread Tobias Fiebig via mailop
Hey Bill, > Do you know why his students have at least twice in the past engaged in > deceptive spamming to gather data? Yes, I do, see Footnote ** of my previous mail; But to recap: It is a complex problem between how academia is setup, what it incentivizes, what it requires, what it

Re: [mailop] SPF (and other email security protocols) Survey

2022-11-23 Thread Slavko via mailop
Dňa 23. novembra 2022 14:32:51 UTC používateľ "Taejoong (tijay) Chung via mailop" napísal: >Yes. As Tobias explained, we can observe certain phenomena (e.g., some mail >servers look up SPF records more than 100 times) from data, but we don't >know *why* it happens; we have interviewed around

Re: [mailop] SPF (and other email security protocols) Survey

2022-11-23 Thread Taejoong (tijay) Chung via mailop
My apologies for the late response due to Thanksgiving break (happy holidays!) We tried hard not to cause any potential GDPR issues and not to fall into the human subject research category as Tobias and Laura already explained (thanks!); for example, we intentionally did not use Google Surveys

Re: [mailop] SPF (and other email security protocols) Survey

2022-11-23 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
On 2022-11-23 at 07:54:41 UTC-0500 (Wed, 23 Nov 2022 13:54:41 +0100) Tobias Fiebig via mailop is rumored to have said: Heho, (Excuse the footnotes; But there is a lot of tangential stuff worth mentioning, but not necessarily core to the thread.) Let me weigh in here and provide some context

Re: [mailop] SPF (and other email security protocols) Survey

2022-11-23 Thread Tobias Fiebig via mailop
Heho, (Excuse the footnotes; But there is a lot of tangential stuff worth mentioning, but not necessarily core to the thread.) Let me weigh in here and provide some context as Tijay listed me as a collaborator, and he seems to be a bit delayed in replies. Tijay is a Professor at VT, and works

Re: [mailop] Massive bounce report campaign

2022-11-23 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen via mailop
On 11/23/22 10:39, Cyril - ImprovMX via mailop wrote: I forgot to mention this, but indeed, the first thing we did was contact them. We had no response, so we blocked them and later realized that the email contact we had was a black hole on their end, so we reached out using another email

Re: [mailop] Massive bounce report campaign

2022-11-23 Thread Laura Atkins via mailop
This is not normal behavior, either by microsoft or your customer. My advice is the same as it was yesterday: terminate the customer. Microsoft doesn’t normally send backscatter, so the fact that you’re getting so much tells me your customer (y’know, the one who didn’t give you a way to

Re: [mailop] SPF (and other email security protocols) Survey

2022-11-23 Thread Alessandro Vesely via mailop
On Tue 22/Nov/2022 16:41:44 +0100 Todd Herr via mailop wrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 2:00 PM Taejoong (tijay) Chung via mailop wrote: The Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is an easy way to check whether the sender is authorized to send emails – however, it may cause some security holes if it

Re: [mailop] Massive bounce report campaign

2022-11-23 Thread Cyril - ImprovMX via mailop
Thank you, everyone, for your response. My timezone differs from yours, so I'm only replying now. I forgot to mention this, but indeed, the first thing we did was contact them. We had no response, so we blocked them and later realized that the email contact we had was a black hole on their end,