[mailop] "The email didn't arrive" to Office 365

2024-05-09 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Hey friends, Quick question for you experts. What do you find to be the most common root cause for reports of emails not being received by Office 365 domains, when you can confirm conclusively that Microsoft accepted the email? Obviously spam folder delivery should rank high, but what else?

[mailop] Microsoft outages?

2024-05-07 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Hoping it’s not just me, looking for a sanity check. Our queues today are packed with these responses from Microsoft’s mail servers: 451 4.7.500 Server busy. Please try again later Hoping, surely, it’s not that they’re deferring email from us and just experiencing normal issues.

Re: [mailop] Apple mail admins?

2024-05-03 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
I once had this problem with another company and I'm going to share it here just in case it resonates with anyone: Despite my NS records pointing to newer servers for years, one day this company (of noteworthy size and fame) queried ns1.mydomain.tld and insisted on using the values returned

Re: [mailop] is warming IPs still necessary?

2024-03-26 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
While I agree with your points Laura (and generally anything you have to say), I felt this right here warranted a secondary point worth making public to the mailing list: It’s more necessary - you need to warm up both your IP and your domain AND the combination of IP and domain addresses.

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

2024-03-16 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
I'm gonna be "that guy" though for a minute. If there are any IPv6 only mail servers, they are hobbyists trying to prove a point. There are a ton of IPv4 only mail servers. In short, there is no benefit to sending mail over IPv6 beyond the ideological preference some people have for feeling

Re: [mailop] Gmail.com SPF false negatives?

2024-02-27 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Is it plausible that Google had a temporary issue reaching your DNS servers? On 2024-02-27 16:30, Rob Nagler via mailop wrote: gmail.com [1] started failing messages from domains which are correctly setup for SPF (and have been for some years): 550-5.7.26 Gmail requires all senders to

Re: [mailop] Microsoft 365 IP addresses listed on Spamcop

2024-02-15 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Microsoft has a very well known spam problem right now. If you have a support contact for Office 365, please make sure to use that as well to complain. They desperately need to hear from their customers that sharing IPs with spammers, who appear (at least from our perspective) to operate with

Re: [mailop] Opinions on what qualifies as a "false positive" RBL listing that should be fixed?

2024-02-14 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
I think it's very situational. But Spamhaus seems to imply that it's currently relevant, not just a one time mistake. It could be more than just poor list hygiene. Well intentioned people creating systems that are abused by spammers is something I come across daily. I'll give an example:

[mailop] Is forwarding to Gmail basically dead?

2024-02-07 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Aside from the question in the subject, because I see this brought up a lot on the mailing list in relation to email forwarding, would passing ARC signatures even matter when the problem is that Google is increasingly rejecting forwarded emails due to the DMARC policy of the original sender

Re: [mailop] iCloud outage?

2024-01-17 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Thanks for helping me confirm this friends. To close the loop, I sent an email to icloudad...@apple.com and the problems appear to have halted very early this morning (US/Central). On 2024-01-17 03:13, Dan Malm via mailop wrote: On 2024-01-17 08:47, Jarland Donnell via mailop wrote: Just

[mailop] iCloud outage?

2024-01-16 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Just a quick sanity check, are others seeing intermittent failure to reach iCloud servers? My logs are filled with: 450 Error connecting to 17.57.156.30. Unexpected socket close I've been having trouble delivering mail to them for at least 12 hours. I hope it's not just me, but it would help

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

2024-01-16 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Don't forget about Elon's New Heater! We're seeing a bit of a reduction of complaints now from this. Are any others seeing it start to slow down as well? I'm hoping MS is getting better at fighting it, but it may just be that I have. I haven't quite gone as far as blocking them but I have

[mailop] Office 365 spam is getting ridiculous

2023-12-29 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
I think we've finally reached the point where more spam comes from Office 365 customers than legitimate and desirable email. Here's just ONE spam campaign from Office 365 we pulled logs for today: https://mxbin.io/piaQqm Notice the different subdomains they send from:

Re: [mailop] Merry Christmas from Google?

2023-12-17 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
of only sometimes being an actual IP based rate limit. I just never sat down long enough to prove it. On 2023-12-17 02:00, Marco Moock via mailop wrote: Am 16.12.2023 um 16:07:19 Uhr schrieb Jarland Donnell via mailop: Obligatory: We don't intend to send any email their way that could

[mailop] Merry Christmas from Google?

2023-12-16 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Hey friends, I just noticed that on November 22nd, Google started returning new errors: 421-4.7.28 Gmail has detected an unusual rate of unsolicited mail originating from your SPF domain [userdomain.tld 15]. To protect our users from spam, mail sent from your domain has been temporarily

Re: [mailop] Outlook.com losing eMail messages and SNDS reporting failures

2023-12-02 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
I never found anyone of consequence who would agree with me or admit that it happens, but I will continue to swear that this is a feature of Hotmail/Outlook. The first time I identified it I think was in 2013. A customer reported the same behavior from their HostGator VPS (when I worked

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

2023-11-27 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
After the years of harassment I’ve endured by being subscribed to hundreds of thousands of mailing lists that are not double opt in, I’d say just casually toss my email into their mailing list and watch me convince them by way of harassment. I’m so far beyond asking nicely, my sanity wasn’t in

[mailop] Comcast issues?

2023-11-27 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Anyone else seeing issues connecting to comcast.net MX servers today? We've got emails piling up in queue and connection failures all over. ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop

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

2023-11-17 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
I "feel" like there's been an increase but I'm not sure if the numbers support my gut feeling. Here's some stats I just pulled if you want to look at them: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14RfO9_RBnQBu4i2lzP4zYMGaQfTDGtNLmcC_E0xQeP4/edit?usp=sharing On 2023-11-17 08:37, Philip Paeps

Re: [mailop] How to report abuse to cloudflare? Only via Web-Form?!? Phishing sites not against cloudflare policy!?!

2023-11-16 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Another perspective might be “Why care?” It’s their site that’s compromised, it’s up to them to care about it. If a host is sending abusive traffic your way, block the host, devalue their IPs by reducing the networks they can communicate with. Surely their website’s abuse isn’t making it back

Re: [mailop] [External] Re: Microsoft CERT Report Response Marked As Spam

2023-11-09 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
put this under the threshold. -KAM On 11/9/2023 1:41 PM, Jarland Donnell via mailop wrote: A score of 5.8 on SpamAssassin rules is fairly low. It would be more advisable for you to consider adjusting your settings. SpamAssassin is designed in such a way that it will always trigger a variety

Re: [mailop] Microsoft CERT Report Response Marked As Spam

2023-11-09 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
A score of 5.8 on SpamAssassin rules is fairly low. It would be more advisable for you to consider adjusting your settings. SpamAssassin is designed in such a way that it will always trigger a variety of rules for every email, legit or otherwise. It shouldn't be too strange to see a legit

Re: [mailop] script to collect SPF addresses by domain?

2023-10-31 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
This is what I use: https://github.com/equk/spf_list/ I get as otherwise mentioned that SPF macros defeat this in theory, but in practice I've not (to date) found myself attempting to extract the IPs from an SPF record of a domain that uses macros. In practice, this has saved me a lot of time

Re: [mailop] fastmail and sender score snafu

2023-10-09 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Thanks for the heads up on this. I've just set our mail servers to watch out for this and treat it as a 5xx. I hadn't noticed, but if I'd ever noticed a 4xx on "Relay access denied" I likely would have added this logic immediately without even taking time to second guess it, as I can't think

Re: [mailop] [Attn: Mailbox Providers] Mandated Email Notice Announcement

2023-10-05 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Thank you for this. I've taken steps to ensure that you will not meet any problem sending these emails to customers of our platform. On 2023-10-04 23:37, Justin Frechette via mailop wrote: Attention Mailbox Providers: As outlined in the "Sending Mandated Emails to Large Audiences" best

Re: [mailop] Authentication Bounces by Gmail

2023-09-13 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
SRS is usually fairly trivial these days, but DMARC changes things. While SRS is doing fine for our users when forwarding email to Gmail, when auth fails and DMARC = reject Google will tell you pretty plainly that they're probably not going to accept it:

Re: [mailop] Authentication Bounces by Gmail

2023-09-13 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Rewriting_Scheme On 2023-09-13 01:19, Atro Tossavainen via mailop wrote: I'm sure I've had a long explanation on here in the past year, but the short answer is if the message is not DKIM valid and you're forwarding, you should rewrite the MAIL FROM to a

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

2023-09-11 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
It's not at all unusual for FBL to be used to block recipients. Transactional email providers quite often use feedback loop reports to add recipients to their customer's suppression list. The reason you specifically find it frustrating is because of this: Most of the providers on the

Re: [mailop] RNC v. Google Dispositioin

2023-08-26 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
That's been a lot of my finding as well. While I fully empathize with efforts to tackle bias, spam from affiliates of the RNC is worse than their counterparts. Mainstream bias is worse in the opposite direction, spam is worse in this direction. It's quite fair to notice the flaws from every

Re: [mailop] Legit-looking mail to the wrong address with no unsubscribe

2023-08-24 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
I usually reply and ask them to cancel the order/reservation. Maybe next time the person won't be so careless writing down their email. On 2023-08-24 07:12, Chris Adams via mailop wrote: What do you do when legitimate mail (lately, DoorDash order info and Delta Airlines tickets) is sent to

Re: [mailop] hotmail.com SPF forgot IPv6

2023-08-21 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
ontain any policies: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7208 On 2023-08-21 15:17, Gellner, Oliver via mailop wrote: On 19.08.2023 at 19:01 Jarland Donnell via mailop wrote: Is "-all" not indeed a policy in SPF, directed by the domain owner? I would argue that it

Re: [mailop] hotmail.com SPF forgot IPv6

2023-08-21 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
ARC is where it's at I haven't spent much time on ARC but if I understand correctly, isn't that a 100% trust based system? Meaning I have to trust that when you say you authenticated it, that you're trustworthy when saying it? On 2023-08-21 04:30, Taavi Eomäe via mailop wrote: On

Re: [mailop] hotmail.com SPF forgot IPv6

2023-08-19 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Is "-all" not indeed a policy in SPF, directed by the domain owner? I would argue that it is. Especially given that there are options there, each one defining how the domain owner wishes SPF failure to be treated. I would find it odd to say that should ignore domain owners when they say

Re: [mailop] Hotmail's Blocklist and S3150

2023-08-17 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Reply and ask them to provide temporary mitigation to the IP range. If they say they can't, just reply and ask for it again. Repeat as necessary. I promise it's okay, this is an intended workflow. On 2023-08-17 16:41, Dan Mahoney (Gushi) via mailop wrote: Hey there all. Dayjob (ISC --

Re: [mailop] Delivery Reports, requested by Microsoft 'Outlook' customer, reported as Spam by same Microsoft 'Outlook' customer?

2023-08-10 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Suppression lists. All the big transactional email providers have them. We do it with feedback loops, if someone reports a legitimate and desired email as spam then we block them from our entire platform. The person who wants to send mail to them can try to reason with them and get the

Re: [mailop] Big Outbreak at Mailgun Yesterday?

2023-07-20 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Mailgun has at least been pretty responsive to abuse complaints lately, major props to them for that. That alone sets them several grades above their marketed counterparts. Now Shopify is becoming a problem over here. You can register people for newsletters at Shopify stores and if the

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

2023-07-13 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Perhaps it's going off topic and apologies if so, but this makes me wonder a second thing. Who is, and why are they, adding subdomains to the PSL when subdomains above that in hierarchy are in the same zone file? On 2023-07-13 13:06, Robert L Mathews via mailop wrote: On 7/13/23 10:44

Re: [mailop] No MX but A: broken MTA(s)

2023-07-11 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Does anyone actually receive mail by their A record in 2023? I'd just assume break the RFC and save the resources for retrying and eventually bouncing every email that ends up attempting delivery to an A record. On 2023-07-11 14:45, Michael Orlitzky via mailop wrote: On Tue, 2023-07-11 at

Re: [mailop] SendGrid is deleting your mail

2023-06-23 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
I thought I was a wild one with testing in production with SpamAssassin rules set to 0 score. That way I could determine the impact without making the impact at all, or without adding resource overhead to other parties just because I was playing around. I think it's a good point here that

Re: [mailop] UCEPROTECT L2 fact

2023-05-22 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
in to augment my spam fighting, UCE L1 probably generated the least complaints. Even spamrats generates more user complaints, despite being fairly sane. On 2023-05-22 14:29, Bill Cole via mailop wrote: On 2023-05-22 at 12:01:52 UTC-0400 (Mon, 22 May 2023 11:01:52 -0500) Jarland Donnell via mailop

Re: [mailop] UCEPROTECT L2 fact

2023-05-22 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
May 2023, at 17:01, Jarland Donnell via mailop wrote: I have not personally run into anyone using L3 or L2 in my experiences thus far. Their L1 list is what most, if anyone, would be subscribing to I would think. Their L1 list is actually really, really good. On 2023-05-14 05:47, Slavko via

Re: [mailop] UCEPROTECT L2 fact

2023-05-22 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
and charges for delists... This is a very commonly cited misconception. Delisting from their BL is automated. If you are impatient and demand immediate intervention, you can pay them to circumvent their automation and delist you early. This is only beneficial if you have actually fixed

Re: [mailop] UCEPROTECT L2 fact

2023-05-22 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
I have not personally run into anyone using L3 or L2 in my experiences thus far. Their L1 list is what most, if anyone, would be subscribing to I would think. Their L1 list is actually really, really good. On 2023-05-14 05:47, Slavko via mailop wrote: Hi, i read multiple times, from

[mailop] Massive botnet going off today?

2023-05-13 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Curious if anyone else is seeing an event similar to this. Here's the logs of 1 hour on one of our servers, for what I propose to be a botnet: https://clbin.com/4khRA I'm leaving the recipient domains in it because they're not actually customer domains. Either they used to be, or they've

Re: [mailop] Amazon please stop your outgoing spam

2023-05-12 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
To be fair it sounds like they're providing fine customer service, their customer is just trash. On 2023-05-12 12:39, Mary via mailop wrote: No they haven't, but I don't expect them to do so. Don't they have the same zero-customer-support policy like every other major tech company? On

[mailop] Missing PTR errors from Google?

2023-05-11 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Curious if anyone else is seeing an increase in errors like this from Google: 550-5.7.25 [136.175.108.212] The IP address sending this message does not have a PTR record setup, or the corresponding forward DNS entry does not point to the sending IP. As a policy, Gmail does not accept

Re: [mailop] New to mass mailings

2023-05-08 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
On the chance that John's message here is read as "well that's just one opinion" let me reiterate: If I find someone emailing my customers from a list of scraped or purchased "leads" I will immediately and permanently block them from my infrastructure, and refund every customer that thinks

[mailop] Dormant IP range coming online for large event

2023-05-08 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Hey friends, I just wanted to offer a heads up for anyone doing research, watching statistics, or that would be so kind as to add any whitelistings/mitigations for it. We're about to spin up 136.175.109.0/24 for an event that starts on May 15th. A customer of ours, who is very legitimate,

Re: [mailop] Charter/Spectrum Tampa SMTP relay question

2023-04-28 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Relaying your domain email through your local ISP, is that a common approach? It seems weird from my perspective. I’d route it through mail.baby instead and call it a day. Interserver is doing great work over there with a mailchannels fallback for pennies. On 2023-04-28 10:11, Jay R. Ashworth

Re: [mailop] ab...@microsoft.com => Mailbox full

2023-04-20 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
The age old problem: Hire a bunch of people to read it that aren't skilled enough to do anything about it, or hire people who are skilled to handle it but don't have the time or manpower to read it all. I'm surprised they even have an abuse inbox. I just block spammy senders from MS/O365

Re: [mailop] [E] Yahoo "Message not allowed" error

2023-04-18 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
ess I just assume the message is "Those people can't email Yahoo anymore." I'm fairly confused. On 2023-04-18 16:25, Marcel Becker via mailop wrote: On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 12:16 PM Jarland Donnell via mailop wrote: id=<481770.862217189-sendEmail@srv4414> (554

[mailop] Yahoo "Message not allowed" error

2023-04-18 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
A customer of ours has been seeing this lately for their emails: Apr 17 21:19:12 zmta1 node[116029]: info Sender/default/116029[11] 1879115f156000becb.001 REJECTED[other] from={censored} to={censored}@yahoo.dk src=136.175.108.211 mx=mx-eu.mail.am0.yahoodns.net[188.125.72.74]

Re: [mailop] SPF behavior on email forwarding

2023-04-14 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
On 2023-04-14 07:45, Taavi Eomäe via mailop wrote: On 14/04/2023 15:22, Laura Atkins via mailop wrote: Unless they’re rewriting the envelope, yes. This is part and parcel of how SPF works. I’m somewhat surprised that those services are not rewriting the envelope, though. Unfortunately, I don’t

Re: [mailop] Sent my first spam in 26 years

2023-04-13 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Did you get any samples of the spam campaign? Most of the ones I've seen in the last few weeks appear to be more computer viruses (stealing credentials from the user's systems), and I've had all of zero blacklistings for the ones that got past me even for several hours. On 2023-04-13 18:16,

[mailop] Google PTR lookup issues or just me?

2023-04-12 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
I've seen a slight increase of messages like this from Google recently: 550-5.7.25 [136.175.108.254] The IP address sending this message does not have a PTR record setup, or the corresponding forward DNS entry does not point to the sending IP. As a policy, Gmail does not accept messages from

Re: [mailop] linodeusercontent.com/googleusercontent.com, I'm so done with you

2023-04-08 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
On 2023-04-08 01:20, Hans-Martin Mosner via mailop wrote: And that's why I'm still in favor of blocking spammer-hosting providers swiftly and broadly. It needs to affect the non-spamming customers, too, to be a strong economic incentive for keeping spammers out. Of course I also punch holes

Re: [mailop] linodeusercontent.com/googleusercontent.com, I'm so done with you

2023-04-07 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
appreciate --srs - From: mailop on behalf of Jarland Donnell via mailop Sent: Saturday, April 8, 2023 9:47:23 AM To: mailop@mailop.org Subject: Re: [mailop] linodeusercontent.com/googleusercontent.com, I'm so done with you To be clear they have an amazing abuse team

Re: [mailop] linodeusercontent.com/googleusercontent.com, I'm so done with you

2023-04-07 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
3-04-07 22:02, Neil Anuskiewicz via mailop wrote: On Apr 4, 2023, at 12:42 PM, Jarland Donnell via mailop wrote: I feel like I've told this story before on the list, but I can't recall. It always feels worth telling. When I worked at DigitalOcean I took what felt like a year (may have been l

Re: [mailop] linodeusercontent.com/googleusercontent.com, I'm so done with you

2023-04-04 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
I feel like I've told this story before on the list, but I can't recall. It always feels worth telling. When I worked at DigitalOcean I took what felt like a year (may have been less) and I focused more energy than any one person probably ever has at any cloud provider on tackling spammers

[mailop] Absurd Outlook-originating spam from i...@usa.org

2023-03-30 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
I'm curious if anyone else is seeing this trend today. I've gathered and mildly censored some logs around this campaign I'm seeing today: https://clbin.com/DkSDr Getting a bit of it across the fleet but none more than that one server I pulled those logs from. Just some counts from the fleet

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

2023-03-23 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
I'd like to add a +1 to this for clarification, but in my case I'm focused solely on SRS. Will Hotmail reject DMARC failures based on From headers or envelope senders? I mean, Gmail already rejects a lot of DMARC failures based on From headers (I assume, since rewriting envelope sender doesn't

Re: [mailop] New iteration of SMTP callback snakeoil

2023-03-11 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
On the off chance that more data helps, here are my findings (with only recipient domains censored) based on a log audit of those "senders." Logs: https://clbin.com/RKWkN Considering that everything before the @ looks to be generated by an algorithm, it should be sufficiently redacted but

Re: [mailop] h-email.net

2023-03-04 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
: Jarland Donnell via mailop wrote: A quick parse of my logs suggests that it's a spam-only operation, so likely won't correlate to any particular front-end mail service. I mean just 100% correlation with spam in my logs, and not a small amount of logs either. Interesting that e.g., Spamhaus

Re: [mailop] h-email.net

2023-03-03 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
A quick parse of my logs suggests that it's a spam-only operation, so likely won't correlate to any particular front-end mail service. I mean just 100% correlation with spam in my logs, and not a small amount of logs either. On 2023-03-03 17:12, Jan Schaumann via mailop wrote: Hey, Does

Re: [mailop] Gmail blocking of good customer

2023-02-24 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
In defense of Google on that, Christine works for Shopify. Shopify is a huge spam outlet. If you want to flood someone's inbox with junk, find thousands of shopify sites and sign them up for their newsletters. Zero double opt in procedures, and if you happen to get a response to abuse

Re: [mailop] Gmail blocking of good customer

2023-02-24 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
On 2023-02-24 12:38, Andrew C Aitchison via mailop wrote: On Fri, 24 Feb 2023, Alessandro Vesely via mailop wrote: On Fri 24/Feb/2023 18:41:34 +0100 Christine Borgia via mailop wrote: I also should have mentioned we use shared IPs so there is no issue with volume from our servers, however

Re: [mailop] Compromised email account trends

2023-02-21 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
-detection-with-abusix-mail-intelligence-and-postfix/ It's based on Postfix, but adapting this for Exim shouldn't be difficult. Kind regards, Steve. On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 at 13:48, Jarland Donnell via mailop wrote: Hey everyone. I've been thinking about how I could add some more value to this list and t

Re: [mailop] Compromised email account trends

2023-02-21 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
://abusix.com/resources/blocklists/compromised-account-detection-with-abusix-mail-intelligence-and-postfix/ It's based on Postfix, but adapting this for Exim shouldn't be difficult. Kind regards, Steve. On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 at 13:48, Jarland Donnell via mailop wrote: Hey everyone. I've been thinking about

Re: [mailop] How to get Google to set a null MX for gmail.co ?

2023-02-16 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Same. In fact, if anyone wants it, I regularly update a list which is mostly intended to help out my customers that receive a lot of fake email signups on blogs, forums, etc. Feel free to take from it: https://github.com/mxroute/da_server_updates/blob/master/exim/spam_recipients On 2023-02-16

[mailop] Compromised email account trends

2023-02-08 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Hey everyone. I've been thinking about how I could add some more value to this list and there's one thing I've been working on for a while that I think will be really helpful to share. Email accounts get compromised. It happens. Especially when using base standards (IMAP/POP/SMTP) that

Re: [mailop] Hetzner

2023-02-07 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Ever been on the receiving end of a retaliatory abuse complaint? As a Hetzner customer I expect some trust in the company I pay money to, that they'll give me a chance to face my accuser and fix the problem if there is one, or give a response as to why I shouldn't have to if there isn't a

Re: [mailop] Question of SPF record

2023-02-06 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Take this: v=spf1 a mx ip4:74.208.4.194 ~all Change it to this: v=spf1 include:_spf.perfora.net include:_spf.kundenserver.de ~all Done :) On 2023-02-05 18:13, H via mailop wrote: I have a domain with multiple email addresses hosted by Ionos. I have found that outgoing emails can come from a

Re: [mailop] Using cloud hosts for MX (not SMTP)

2023-01-17 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Though it's possible that you may see this more with governments and such, I've not noticed that anyone significant blocks their own traffic outbound to OVH, except for a couple of military contractors (which isn't my definition of significant to any average person). If they block anything

Re: [mailop] gmail putting most messages into Spam

2023-01-17 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
-tester.com --I have never used it? Is it a website? On Tue, 17 Jan 2023 18:20:09 -0500, Jarland Donnell via mailop wrote: On 2023-01-17 17:06, John Covici via mailop wrote: > Still broke for me. I believe your issue was different from the one in this thread and best summarized by your mess

Re: [mailop] gmail putting most messages into Spam

2023-01-17 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
. On 2023-01-17 18:03, John Covici via mailop wrote: OK, well, now I can't send even to a single gmail address. What is mail-tester.com --I have never used it? Is it a website? On Tue, 17 Jan 2023 18:20:09 -0500, Jarland Donnell via mailop wrote: On 2023-01-17 17:06, John Covici via mailop wrote

Re: [mailop] gmail putting most messages into Spam

2023-01-17 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
On 2023-01-17 17:06, John Covici via mailop wrote: Still broke for me. I believe your issue was different from the one in this thread and best summarized by your message in that separate thread: On 2023-01-17 10:31, John Covici via mailop wrote: Hi. For some reason this morning, I am

Re: [mailop] gmail putting most messages into Spam

2023-01-17 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Just a +1 report for the sake of data. The only legitimate emails I have in my spam folder at Gmail are from Inno Supps and healthcare.gov. Inno Supps I get because of their products and, therefore, their language is quite similar to standard spam campaigns. Healthcare.gov I get because,

Re: [mailop] Valid SPF/DKIM/DMARC *SPAM* coming from my domain ?!

2023-01-11 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Is there some kind of forwarding address or something that would end up going through your mailgun account? The reason I ask is this header right here: Received: from reflectiv.net (os3-384-25366.vs.sakura.ne.jp [133.167.109.120]) by db739d28cce8 with SMTP id ; Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:26:59 GMT

Re: [mailop] verizon email-to-text gateway mail deferred evening and night

2023-01-06 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Considering how easy it is to get IPs blocked from every Verizon-owned brand, because one single person sent the wrong email to SMS and tripped a filter, and that you have to escalate to the CEO's team to get unblocked, I don't know why anyone even rolls these dice anymore. I tell everyone to

Re: [mailop] Contact at mxrouting.net / mxroute.com /porkbun.com ?

2023-01-03 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Right here friend. On 2023-01-03 14:07, Peter N. M. Hansteen via mailop wrote: Does anyone have useful contact info for one or more of those (which I am beginning to believe is in fact the same outfit)? Some odd delivery problems with messages that are some of the least useful I have seen.

Re: [mailop] I received a scam letter from Paypal

2022-12-28 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
not sure how much needs to be done after registration to gain the feature but I imagine if you have a working login, you have the feature. On 2022-12-28 12:55, Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop wrote: Dnia 28.12.2022 o godz. 12:33:05 Jarland Donnell via mailop pisze: It's a perfectly legitimate feature

Re: [mailop] I received a scam letter from Paypal

2022-12-28 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
It's a perfectly legitimate feature of PayPal that you can create an invoice and send it to someone. Pretty much every invoice service that exists allows similar. They just have a problem with malicious users creating invoices for people that don't owe them any money. On 2022-12-28 12:14,

Re: [mailop] Contact info for antispamcloud.com ?

2022-12-25 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Fairly certain that belongs to SpamExperts. I don't think they send email from that domain, it could be spoofed in an effort to abuse someone's poorly executed whitelist, since anyone using their service has to ignore SPF for emails coming from their servers, whitelisting is usually involved.

Re: [mailop] Google Abuse?

2022-12-16 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
It's a simple matter of cost vs benefit. People sitting and responding personally to abuse complaints all day do not, directly, generate revenue. Given their size and adoption in the marketplace, personal responses to abuse complaints are not going to increase their market share. On

Re: [mailop] Report sharing

2022-12-14 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Thanks for sharing this. I'm asking publicly as I'm curious if this message spawns any conversation, but have you seen or heard a lot of intentional abuse around using bsdly.net email addresses specifically to attack website owners? I find that emails to these bsdly.net addresses seem to

Re: [mailop] DigitalOcean IP ranges gone

2022-11-25 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
DO uses third-party services to send emails. If you want to block only their cloud ranges, blocking all of their announcements is appropriate. On 2022-11-25 14:16, Slavko via mailop wrote: Dňa 25. novembra 2022 19:15:07 UTC používateľ Lukas Tribus via mailop napísal: Hello, if we are

Re: [mailop] Another interesting batch of suspicious activity on an IPXO network..

2022-11-25 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
a tiny bit of clarity, Gustavas D IPXO Abuse Prevention Team -Original Message- From: mailop On Behalf Of Jarland Donnell via mailop Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2022 6:07 PM To: mailop@mailop.org Subject: Re: [mailop] Another interesting batch of suspicious activity on an IPXO n

Re: [mailop] Partial issues forwarding mails to gmail.com

2022-11-24 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
I have noticed that one of the most consistently rejected emails when forwarded to Gmail, is an email from Google. I just rotate outbound IPs on that message using ZoneMTA and it'll get through. Waiting for an IP to clear a rate limit with Gmail just seems like bad business at this point. On

Re: [mailop] Another interesting batch of suspicious activity on an IPXO network..

2022-11-24 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
When I first tested the IPXO network they required me to pay them a custom fee to exclude my services from their internal mail scanner. They would otherwise downgrade connections from SSL and intercept the SMTP traffic, then scan the contents of emails for spam. I can't imagine that still

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

Re: [mailop] Massive bounce report campaign

2022-11-22 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
I would block the recipient domains at the MTA level and cut out the IP rate limiting for a while. An MTA should be able to handle the rejection for the domain fine. I do the same with exim when a user tries to give me the job of mass forwarding bounces, I just won't do it. In my mind a flood

Re: [mailop] [EXTERNAL] Really good paypal phishing email this morning

2022-11-18 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Basically, you go here: https://www.paypal.com/invoice/s/manage Click the gear symbol, Business Information, fill out what you want and add a logo. Then click Save, create an invoice for someone, and PayPal will send it to them. There's not much of anything that any of us can do to filter it

Re: [mailop] Google Gives Gmail Mass Email Services the Boot

2022-11-18 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
This is excellent news. I'm quite ready for some of these services to move my way and try to pull off similar activities. I'd love to ruin their day just a bit more. On 2022-11-18 11:56, Anne Mitchell via mailop wrote: It's about time, and to the extent that you were involved (if at all),

Re: [mailop] Really good paypal phishing email this morning

2022-11-18 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Someone probably named themselves "Walmart" on PayPal and issued an invoice in their UI for your email, triggering PayPal to send you an invoice for it. On 2022-11-18 09:09, Zach Rose via mailop wrote: https://www.screencast.com/t/dNPpByTSjrq I rarely use paypal, if ever, and haven't shopped

Re: [mailop] Can't deliver to Microsoft from a subnet

2022-11-14 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Just to be sure because I didn't see you mention it, make sure you've contacted them via the form I often see linked so many different ways but I'll link as this: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/getsupport?oaspworkflow=start_1.0.0.0=capsub=edfsmsbl3=en-us=636165504238569370 Make sure to

Re: [mailop] Google Translate provide spammer and phishing reputation

2022-11-10 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
It's an interesting attack angle. Has anyone here seen any user fall for anything similar? I want to say no one would fall for that but experience tells me I should never underestimate what an end user will fall prey to. On 2022-11-10 13:22, MRob via mailop wrote: Recent I saw a link in a

Re: [mailop] Microsoft allows free-form spoofing?

2022-11-08 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Isn't *.onmicrosoft.com actually valid? Though typically not used, I'm fairly certain it's interchangeable for the user's domain on an Office 365 subscription. I was trying to find something to validate my memory and I think this backs it:

Re: [mailop] Spamhaus DNS issues causing all incoming mail to drop for me

2022-11-04 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Indeed they shouldn't. The most noteworthy implementation that seems to treat these as false positives is cPanel, I believe. Every single day we run into no less than 3-5 servers which reject emails from us, claiming that we're listed on SH. They seem to almost always be cPanel boxes. On

Re: [mailop] Update: it's not. Re: T-Online is now really blocking messages from non-commercial and simliar senders

2022-10-21 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
Because this topic appears to be generating so much interest, I'll toss my data into the ring. Data helps everything. I'm typing this progressively as I do the work, so that's why it doesn't read like something in which I've already reached a conclusion before typing it. I know I work my butt

Re: [mailop] gmail: Benefit of a generic SPF-record?

2022-09-29 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
tely not authorized. On 2022-09-29 13:30, Bill Cole via mailop wrote: On 2022-09-29 at 13:15:54 UTC-0400 (Thu, 29 Sep 2022 12:15:54 -0500) Jarland Donnell via mailop is rumored to have said: That little ~ is the part that gets me and I think opens it up to any IP more than the pa

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