Re: [mailop] [FEEDBACK] Approach to dealing with List Washing services, industry feedback..

2020-01-06 Thread John Johnstone via mailop
On 1/3/20 3:14 PM, Michael Peddemors via mailop wrote: Our team is discussing this internally, and curious about others position on addressing list washing services.. Some are better than others of course, identifying themselves correctly.. But then there are those on Digital Ocean or AWS

Re: [mailop] DigitalOcean calling for social media s* storm? (Re: Why is it so hard to have takedown's performed..)

2019-04-29 Thread John Johnstone via mailop
On 4/29/2019 12:12 PM, Michael Peddemors via mailop wrote: On 2019-04-29 8:37 a.m., Michael Peddemors via mailop wrote: Speaking of.. anyone have any insight into these guys? They keep popping up on various CDN's eg, DO, AZURE, etc.. Most, possibly all of these networks are blocked here.

Re: [mailop] [FOR THE RECORD] Overnite update to Cisco IronPort may be causing problems..

2019-03-19 Thread John Johnstone
On 3/18/2019 12:58 PM, Michael Peddemors wrote: > Reported to our support teams, an over night filter rule update on Cisco > IronPorts results in messages being modified incorrectly.. > If anyone is trying to deal with increased reports of problems > sending/receiving email through companies

Re: [mailop] Outlook/Hotmail Blacklist

2019-03-08 Thread John Johnstone
On 3/8/19 3:01 PM, Scott Mutter wrote: So I'm back, because I'm getting absolutely no where with Outlook Support. Here is a log of the SMTP transaction: --SNIP-- # telnet hotmail-com.olc.protection.outlook.com 25 550 5.7.1 Unfortunately, messages from [67.222.128.248] weren't sent. Please

Re: [mailop] Lot of bitcoin spam now from outlook.com servers?!

2018-11-15 Thread John Johnstone
In the past 10 days there have been 6 phishing scams via Google Forms which is a new venue, at least for me. Two days ago got a similar one via a file sharing link from box.com, another new avenue. The "too big to block" problem seems to be hard to solve on the sending side as well as on the

Re: [mailop] Anyone else seeing EOP/O365 unable to connect when delivering?

2018-10-04 Thread John Johnstone
On 10/4/2018 2:21 PM, Ryan Krueger wrote: Mark, We completed a packet capture to a server that is not behind a load balancer. A message was delayed 15 minutes with the same error message shown in the EOP UI: "450 4.4.316 Connection refused [Message=Socket error code 10061]”. However, there

Re: [mailop] News about the travails with my famous Y! trap account

2018-06-19 Thread John Johnstone
On 6/19/18 3:20 PM, Steve Atkins wrote: On Jun 19, 2018, at 8:10 PM, Brandon Long via mailop wrote: They used to use qmail which uses - instead of the more common + for multiple addresses, wonder if this is a side effect of the forwarding for ymail.com using qmail Likely. Though at one

Re: [mailop] Hat color of list washers / validators

2018-03-07 Thread John Johnstone
On 3/7/2018 4:12 AM, Stefano Bagnara wrote: On 2 March 2018 at 21:45, John Johnstone <jjohnstone-mai...@tridentusa.com> wrote: One concern with respect to hat color I was thinking about was if there is a significant security threat from spear-phishing that is facilitated by the vali

[mailop] Hat color of list washers / validators

2018-03-02 Thread John Johnstone
The list washers / validators must be doing a brisk business today. Many use Amazon hosting in what seems to be an attempt to evade blocking by IP. Aside from the simple attempts I see some that are trying things like: j...@domain.tld john@domain.tld jon@domain.tld

Re: [mailop] WHAT can be done about Ezoic and their spamming through Google?

2017-11-16 Thread John Johnstone
On 11/16/17 6:12 PM, Michael Peddemors wrote: And ON that topic.. what to do about the elephant in the room.. Seems both Spammers and Email Marketers are all jumping on the Amazon bandwagon.. (Personally, I never thought the price point would make it worth it) In addition, the email

Re: [mailop] anybody here from earthlink?

2017-09-25 Thread John Johnstone
On 9/25/17 3:44 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: had to go back and reread spec - now I have to figure out how thunderbird messed up - sigh.. If you haven't done a Compact on the source folder yet, the original messages are still in Thunderbird's local copy of the folder. A folder is just one

Re: [mailop] Spam from CLARO S.A. Brazil and Grupo de Segurança Vírtua

2017-06-21 Thread John Johnstone
On 6/21/17 7:43 AM, Otto J. Makela wrote: The bulk of Brazilian emails we receive these days seems to be snowshoe spam from CLARO S.A. clients. There are quite a lot of /14 netblocks, whose abuse-c (and all other contacts) is Grupo de Segurança Vírtua . It isn't promising