Re: [mailop] About to blacklist Marketo - has anyone received non-spam from them?

2019-05-29 Thread Mark Foster via mailop
> > So ... never, ever post one's email, "Online" ... > Does this include to an industry mailinglist, I wonder ... if membership > is unvetted? > Obviously this is only relevant to my jurisdiction (New Zealand) but when we created the Unsolicited Electronic Messaging Act we created different

Re: [mailop] Howto be a good mailop (best practice / insights wanted)

2019-05-09 Thread Mark Foster via mailop
> Hi Ken, > > > > awesome. Thats a bunch of helpful steps! Thanks a lot! > I'm a few years removed from directly administering a 'real' mail server (directly, at least) but I have some observations about Ken's list: > > * Monitor abuse@ and make sure that this address a) exists for your >

Re: [mailop] SpamCop and listwashing

2019-08-27 Thread Mark Foster via mailop
Aside: Clicking Reply-All in Microsoft Outlook only put Luis and Andy into the To: box. I had to manually add mailop. My view is that (generally), Operations that're so big as to receive many reports a day, grossly under-resource their abuse-response capability and don't particularly care

Re: [mailop] Return Path / Sender Score

2019-09-11 Thread Mark Foster via mailop
Michael, I had a grump at Kogan / Dick Smith via email when I wound up on what I assume is the same distribution list. Speaking very firmly with them via Twitter initially, and then ultimately via email with someone at Kogan, the spam seems to have stopped. They alleged that someone submitted

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

2020-01-25 Thread Mark Foster via mailop
On 26/01/2020 1:46 PM, Ángel via mailop wrote: On 2020-01-24 at 11:16 -0800, Brandon Long via mailop wrote: Anyways, the main reason I assume is design and space limitations as well as the cognitive load of the UI. Only showing it when it may be important increases the chance that it's

Re: [mailop] How long to retry?

2020-02-04 Thread Mark Foster via mailop
> > > On 3 Feb 2020, at 14:04, Brandon Long via mailop wrote: > >> One of the main reasons I don't think we should use such long retries >> is >> that it violates user expectations. Users often treat email as nearly >> instantaneous, because it normally is... so taking hours or days of >>

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

2020-01-23 Thread Mark Foster via mailop
> Dnia 22.01.2020 o godz. 23:31:13 John Levine via mailop pisze: >> At some point I give up and hit the spam button. > > And thus you are training Google's AI to treat completely legit (only > misdirected) messages as spam. > Maybe one day these senders will find out that when they send another >

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

2020-01-16 Thread Mark Foster via mailop
I couldn't help but respond to this one... > I'd say if it's even remotely gray mail, and not pure spam, go for the > unsubscribe. On Gmail, we only provide a ui unsub link if the sender > reputation is ok, for example, but arguably anything from a mainstream esp > or company is fine to unsub

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

2020-01-16 Thread Mark Foster via mailop
Yes, I assume that’s the root of how I got on those mailing lists – someone deciding my email address was theirs. But what’s the difference between that, and spam? In my eyes it’s all unwanted email in my inbox. And it’s not once or twice. It’s hundreds of times. Far from isolated cases.

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

2020-01-17 Thread Mark Foster via mailop
... because other users of Facebook can give your email address to Facebook in order to trigger an invite to join Facebook. And then you get reminders, again and again. It was eventually possible to 'unsubscribe' so that further invites would not be generated, but this again runs against common

Re: [mailop] Unable to receive email from WeTransfer and Facebook (only for a specific domain)

2020-05-17 Thread Mark Foster via mailop
Works fine if you don't include the final period: mail from: <> 250 ok rcpt to: 250 ok quit 221 mail04.cbsolt.net So that's not it. -Original Message- From: mailop On Behalf Of ml+mailop--- via mailop Sent: Sunday, 17 May 2020 10:31 pm To: mailop@mailop.org Subject: Re: [mailop]

Re: [mailop] STARTTLS - Constant Contact and yahoo.co.jp

2020-08-26 Thread Mark Foster via mailop
I think the option of forcing TLS within a closed community is fine. I think the option of forcing TLS on the wide-wide-internet is a minefield for anyone who needs to communicate outside of a relatively closed network... because Email supports fall-back-to-plain-text by design, and it's hard to

Re: [mailop] Microsoft Outlook "Modern Authentication"?

2020-06-02 Thread Mark Foster via mailop
> On 2020-05-28 at 13:35 -0600, Daniele Nicolodi via mailop wrote: >> Does anyone know if there is any alternative to Outlook to access >> Exchange Online mailboxes that require modern authentication? >> >> The IT department of the organization that is pushing thins says that >> modern

Re: [mailop] Maximum message size - tag along question.

2020-10-24 Thread Mark Foster via mailop
My usual limit is 100MB and then I explain to my users that: 1) That's the _email size limit_ and not the size limit for an attachment to an email 2) Email is inefficient when used for transferring files, thus overhead 3) Email is not intended to be a system for routinely moving large files 4)

Re: [mailop] Outlook strange behavior from Outlook.com (not a surprise... but...)

2021-06-16 Thread Mark Foster via mailop
Hi Xavier, If your secondary MX will refuse email with a relaying error, it's not a valid MX and should be removed from DNS... This doesn't explain outlook.com favouring it but also, they've pulled you up on poor configuration. :-) No point in having an advertised MX that isn't ready for

Re: [mailop] DMARC and pure SPF

2021-10-07 Thread Mark Foster via mailop
Merging responses to two thread followups below: On 6/10/2021 11:54 am, Neil Jenkins via mailop wrote: On Wed, 6 Oct 2021, at 08:42, Mark Foster via mailop wrote: I think people using forwarding _know_ that SPF breaks their stuff. That is a very optimistic viewpoint about the baseline

Re: [mailop] Roundcube client IPs → dovecot, postfix

2021-12-29 Thread Mark Foster via mailop
On 29/12/2021 11:48 pm, Noel Butler via mailop wrote: abuse reports filed with them... there's little evidence of this to an end-user/victim...) I for one look forward to Roundcube building in the option to have the web IP included in headers, Mark, you do realise, that information *is

Re: [mailop] Roundcube client IPs → dovecot, postfix

2021-12-29 Thread Mark Foster via mailop
On 29/12/2021 11:58 pm, Noel Butler via mailop wrote: On 29/12/2021 14:15, Mark Foster via mailop wrote: I use Roundcube myself and as a /user/ of the software, it hadn't occurred to me that, much like Gmail, people who send emails using this webmail tool have /full anonymity/ (except

Re: [mailop] Let's play "What's wrong with this picture?" - perhaps Microsoft can take the first stab at this :)

2023-09-07 Thread Mark Foster via mailop
I had to reach out to their technical support (for the outlook.com / hotmail.com stuff) recently when email from my personal MTA disappeared into a black hole for ~9 hours. After about hour 1 or 2 I raised a support request (as a customer) and over the course of an hour (online chat session)

Re: [mailop] Google's Request to the FEC about Allowing Political Email to Bypass Spam Filtering

2022-07-09 Thread Mark Foster via mailop
On 10/07/2022 9:54 am, Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop wrote: Dnia 9.07.2022 o godz. 13:53:46 Anne Mitchell via mailop pisze: To those of you who aren't already aware of it, Google has asked the Federal Election Commission for an opinion about Google's 'pilot project' to allow political candidates

Re: [mailop] Question for Google -- how am I able to be added to google groups without opting in?

2022-06-16 Thread Mark Foster via mailop
On 17/06/2022 3:46 pm, Noel Butler via mailop wrote: On 17/06/2022 05:55, Brandon Long via mailop wrote: You should get a welcome message when a user direct subscribes you to a group that should have an unsubscribe link in it.  The welcome message part of the flow that the group manager can

Re: [mailop] The oligopoly has won.

2022-09-14 Thread Mark Foster via mailop
On 14/09/2022 9:24 pm, Renaud Allard via mailop wrote: On 9/14/22 10:57, Alessandro Vesely via mailop wrote: * Stop blackholing. That one is the absolute worst of the worst of the worst. Blackholing is something that _MUST NOT_ be done, ever, for whatever reason. There is never and

Re: [mailop] OpenDMARC

2022-12-29 Thread Mark Foster via mailop
Some reading that might be useful. https://github.com/vshymanskyy/StandWithUkraine/issues/135 https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/27/7zip_compression_tool/ https://pcper.com/2022/06/boycott-7-zip-because-its-not-on-github-seriously/ My impression is that 7-Zip is way, way down the severity

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

2023-04-21 Thread Mark Foster via mailop
Per https://msrc.microsoft.com/report/abuse it appears they would like you to fill in a web form, in order to "report suspected cyberattacks or abuse originating from Microsoft Online Services, such as Microsoft Azure, Bing, OneDrive, and Office 365." It does cite ab...@microsoft.com as a