Re: [mailop] EHLO/rDNS match

into history... -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Blog: Logjam, Openssl and Email Deliverability

Brandon Long wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Hugo Slabbert hslabb...@stargate.ca mailto:hslabb...@stargate.ca wrote: On Tue 2015-Jun-30 01:04:48 +0200, Michelle Sullivan miche...@sorbs.net mailto:miche...@sorbs.net wrote: That said, so far today, only 0.015

Re: [mailop] Blog: Logjam, Openssl and Email Deliverability

Hugo Slabbert wrote: On Tue 2015-Jun-30 01:04:48 +0200, Michelle Sullivan miche...@sorbs.net wrote: That said, so far today, only 0.015% of our outbound messages that were over an encrypted link were using SSLv3. At our volume, that's not nothing, unfortunately, but it's a pretty small

Re: [mailop] Blog: Logjam, Openssl and Email Deliverability

Brandon Long wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Michelle Sullivan miche...@sorbs.net mailto:miche...@sorbs.net wrote: Thoughts/comments welcome. Sure, there's a bit of political or privacy argument involved here, that some people think why does this need to be encrypted

Re: [mailop] Apple, iPhone setup, attempts SSL on port 587

it specifies SMTP - which is a plain text by default protocol - may negotiate TLS) -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Apple, iPhone setup, attempts SSL on port 587

painful to configure. I concur with this. AUTH is *OPTIONAL* and should remain so (maybe default it on like just about every MSA does now - most seem to allow 127.0.0.1 without auth but any more than that has to be explicitly configured.) Regards, -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org

Re: [mailop] BTInternet delivery problems

;> >> > > > ___ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/mailop > -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] contact at cantv.net?

contact him via l...@sorbs.net but your mileage may vary there... I don't know if he kept the forward up to date or logs in from time to time. -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Mailchimp / Mandrill App: European VS US Privacy Laws

and/or Australian Hosted domains/mailboxes. I wonder how Mailchimp would answer that... I wonder how it holds up in the real world? Regards, -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin

Re: [mailop] signup form abuse

64.235.144.0/20 <http://64.235.144.0/20> Specifically: 64.235.154.109, 64.235.153.2, 64.235.150.252, 64.235.153.10, 64.235.154.105, 64.235.154.109 Single click through? (as in everything in the URL?) - if so probably automated mail scanning. -- Michelle Sull

Re: [mailop] Incorrect listing at Proofpoint

Rob N ★ wrote: We haven't been able to get hold of anyone at Proofpoint - no obvious support service for non-customers and we haven't been able to get anyone on the phone. Does anyone have a contact they can put me in touch with? Replied offlist. -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org

Re: [mailop] GMail 421 is sometimes a permanent failure?

this message again” and a 4xy as “keep trying until timeout”. (There are a couple that reattempt 5xy from different IPs, for reasons.) There are "legitimate ESPs" on this list that have stated their policy of treating 5xy as a 4xy temporary error you can retry... Regards, -- Michelle Sul

Re: [mailop] I have developed a new method of blocking spam that's a game changer

u're not the only one... and interestingly I got this earlier... To: "Michelle Sullivan [Webform]" <miche...@sorbs.net> From: dave.w...@ntlworld.com Subject: [Webform] How to cure 90+% of fake emails Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 05:14:21 -0800 (PST) Michelle, I invented Domain

Re: [mailop] DMARC question

d registration email validation emails where not an insignificant number are deliberately fake and/or have typos... for example. -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] GMail 421 is sometimes a permanent failure?

oviding alternative permanent messages (whether 2xx or 5xx as appropriate.) This is of course a problem with the receivers setup however as an external party you have no-idea so you have to resort to adjusting your queue time as appropriate for you. Regards, Michelle -- Michell

Re: [mailop] Anyone from Proofpoint around?

> https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop > > > > > ___ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop > -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.m

Re: [mailop] Spurious 'Client host [xyz] blocked using b.barracudacentral.org' replies

> > > This is from memory, I remember a discussion … a decade or so ago? > And yes it was almost a decade ago... ;-) Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Spurious 'Client host [xyz] blocked using b.barracudacentral.org' replies

iving complaints from some sendmail users... apparently some configs/versions would not work correctly if 127.0.0.1 returned a positive in it's DNSbl checks... Of course knowing this certain "hats" wanted the check for 127.0.0.1 to disable the DNSbl check... to which my argument was alwa

Re: [mailop] New method of blocking spam

ok I'll go with that.. If you're doing it on the body you're probably working against prior art of a 2004 patent. Regards, Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] New method of blocking spam

Marc Perkel wrote: > > On 01/21/16 17:23, Michelle Sullivan wrote: >> Marc Perkel wrote: >>> Because it works on NOT matching instead of matching they don't get >>> the same advantages as matching systems. If they try to fake one of >>> those subjects

Re: [mailop] Mail accepted by outlook.com/hotmail.com disappears.

an email ... 'gmail.com.mt' != 'gmail.com' and they're just trying to find a reason why it's not their fault.) Regards, Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin

Re: [mailop] iCloud dropping all of our mail

and our own testing). Did you get URLs pointing to the block? (You should have) If you have some message IDs I could get them looked up to see if/why they were dropped. Regards, -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list

Re: [mailop] Any Proofpoint contacts here?

Jim Cheetham wrote: I'm suffering from a strange recurrent blocking ... https://support.proofpoint.com/rbl-lookup.cgi?ip=139.80.64.247 /me waves hand... however also takes note of the other reply, and this: Your IP address is not currently being blocked: 139.80.64.247 Regards, -- Michelle

[mailop] Latest TLD issues..

$0.89" .. :/ -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Latest TLD issues..

Luis E. Muñoz wrote: On 25 Apr 2016, at 15:25, Michelle Sullivan wrote: But again, it isn't the registrar that should be blamed, unless of course the domains are being registered with stolen or forged information and credit cards.. Yeah you didn't quote me there... My conclusion

Re: [mailop] Any Proofpoint contacts here?

___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] "Spammer TLDs" and IP addresses without a reverse?

ues = Temp Fail Connection timeout/Refused = DNS issues = Temp Fail -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] DNS Errors for Microsoft Hostnames

with that in mind... Regards, Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Facebook/Twitter, advice/anyone here?

etc.. such a security risk in the name of privacy... not to mention as you pointed out privacy is out of the window when you use the 'recover password' function... along with security of any credit card associated with the account. -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org

[mailop] Facebook/Twitter, advice/anyone here?

in problem there is people sending receipts for their purchases... you'd think they (the consumers) might be worried about a third-party getting all their (valid) credit card details, but I guess not Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://ww

Re: [mailop] Large increase of spam/connections from snowshoe ranges

enough to keep from being rate limited.. (Funny, because we are just in the midst of launching an early detector/reporting/escalation tool for these) I've been catching cutwail for SORBS for a good number of months now. Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org

Re: [mailop] Anyone from Proofpoint on the list?

the form there claims it has opened tickets 1110564, 545, and 1112481 with Proofpoint recently, but nobody has responded and the listing remains. Thanks! Its been removed. -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop

[mailop] Randy Bush on the list...?

This report relates to a message you sent with the following header fields: Message-id:<deaf43c4-fc9c-e52c-d62b-15334c4a8...@sorbs.net> Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 12:03:15 +0100 From: Michelle Sullivan<miche...@sorbs.net> To: Randy Bush<ra...@psg.com> Subject: Re: change

Re: [mailop] Facebook/Twitter, advice/anyone here?

... Thanks anyhow.. Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Blocking emails from domains without SPF records

in a secure fashion.) Regards, Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Blocking emails from domains without SPF records

Mark Foster wrote: By 'configured to do so', does Michelle mean , well, obeying SPF? Yes I mean if the receiving server is both checking SPF and enforcing the policy configured ;-) (sorry I did a really bad job of being clear :) ) -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org

Re: [mailop] Blocking emails from domains without SPF records

them differently, but that my personal opinion. Regards, Michelle On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Michelle Sullivan <miche...@sorbs.net <mailto:miche...@sorbs.net>> wrote: Brandon Long via mailop wrote: If your mail server doesn't expect to get forwarded mail, I

Re: [mailop] Blocking emails from domains without SPF records

ithout SPF, if google.com doesn't have an SPF record it would just stop you sending to me, if you put in a +all or ?all record into google.com's DNS I would accept your email... Regards, -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing l

Re: [mailop] Bigpond/Telstra contact

Michelle Sullivan wrote: I've forwarded your message to my contact over there. It (his official email) bounced.. he no longer works as postmaster@ ... no idea who (if anyone) has taken up the mantle. Michelle Regards, Michelle Matthew Gilbert wrote: Hello, I've sent several emails

Re: [mailop] Bigpond/Telstra contact

. Deliverability Engineer - MailChimp -- ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing

Re: [mailop] Need abuse/postmaster contact for AT to resolve IP block

locked.__For_information_see_http://att.net/blocks> #SMTP# I've seen a load of these as well... for the SORBS support server replies... Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nos

Re: [mailop] How many more RBL's do we really need?

actually directed at invaluement - they were all comments surrounding those directly mentioned but hopefully generalised enough that fingers were not pointed where there was something lacking.) Regards, -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org

Re: [mailop] Trouble with dnsbl.sorbs.net?

Robert L Mathews wrote: From my locations, I'm seeing that some of the SORBS dnsbl.sorbs.net DNSBL hasn't been working correctly for a couple of weeks. They use 18 servers (rbldns0.sorbs.net - rbldns18.sorbs.net, excepting rbldns5.sorbs.net), but three or four of these do not respond, and four

Re: [mailop] FacebookMail Contact?

陈俊平 wrote: Hello Team, Is there any one from Facebook or got their contacts? The domain facebookmail.com is making a lot of SMTP connections to my MX servers and doing "SMTP RCPT TO" to many sorted and invalid accounts, whose requests are so many that it results in a DDOS-like attack. I

Re: [mailop] Storing 821 envelope recipients in an 822.Header?

David Hofstee wrote: The X- type headers are deprecated... https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6648 Oh now there's a bad idea if ever I heard one... :/ Michelle ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org

Re: [mailop] SORBS help

Vick Khera wrote: On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 7:04 PM, Michelle Sullivan <miche...@sorbs.net <mailto:miche...@sorbs.net>> wrote: Therefore, I'm not even going to discuss the issue of 'problem solved within minutes' issue at this point as you will note the

Re: [mailop] SORBS on the list?

Michael Ellis wrote: Hi, Anyone from SORBS on the list? You have a /17 blacklisted for Zombie activity from 2004 I need to speak to you about. Michelle Sullivan is here I believe. Sorbs is her baby Thanks Michael... Ryan, log a support ticket in the ISP-Support queue and if the support

Re: [mailop] SORBS help

Vick Khera wrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Bryan Vest > wrote: If someone from SORBS could contact me off list or on list I don't care, either way we need to get this block removed. How much trouble is it causing you? I find it

Re: [mailop] SORBS help

John Leslie wrote: Michelle Sullivan <miche...@sorbs.net> wrote: ... On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Bryan Vest <murli...@gmail.com <mailto:murli...@gmail.com>> wrote: If someone from SORBS could contact me off list or on list I don't care, either way we need

Re: [mailop] SORBS help

Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. wrote: On Jan 7, 2017, at 11:33 AM, D'Arcy Cain wrote: On 2017-01-07 01:05 PM, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. wrote: Moreover, Federal law *specifically* grants that right to ISPs (refusing anybody's email for any, and indeed for no, reason). Where is this

Re: [mailop] SORBS help

Michelle Sullivan wrote: Vick Khera wrote: On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 7:07 PM, Michelle Sullivan <miche...@sorbs.net <mailto:miche...@sorbs.net>> wrote: So taking your blatant attack literally which I was under the impression was against list policy, lets ins

Re: [mailop] SORBS help

Bryan Vest wrote: We have been blocked for 48 hours by SORBS for an email that was in no way spam. It did not look like spam and was sent to a small group of email addresses. The ip address in question only has this one entry in their system and of course no replies to request for answer as to

Re: [mailop] SORBS help

Jaren Angerbauer wrote: On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 9:10 PM, Michelle Sullivan <miche...@sorbs.net <mailto:miche...@sorbs.net>> wrote: Perhaps you'd like to backup the assertion that "It did not look like spam and was sent to a small group of email addresses."

Re: [mailop] SORBS help

Vick Khera wrote: On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 7:07 PM, Michelle Sullivan <miche...@sorbs.net <mailto:miche...@sorbs.net>> wrote: So taking your blatant attack literally which I was under the impression was against list policy, lets instead attempt to be constructive and

Re: [mailop] 'abuse@' a hosting company - was this a valid response?

ent people that get caught up in it, and often will go out of my way to help them resolve by moving to another provider. Regards, -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-b

Re: [mailop] RFC question on smtp replies...

ot; before logging. Regards, -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Fwd: RFC question on smtp replies...

nsistency before the weekend ;-). Yours, -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

[mailop] MailChimp...

MailChimp people... Around 48 hours ago sent message to abuse@ ... got no reply (not even an Ack) ... Is this normal? Maybe someone would like to contact me offlist as a spammer on Sendgrid got booted now they are on MailChimp. Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org

[mailop] Sendgrid people

gistration of a domain).. Reports from other people are being sent to the data protection commissioner... people keep asking me if they can add all their spam to the SORBS entries. Regards, -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing l

Re: [mailop] GDPR and WHOIS PRIVACY

"Hey, avoid the GDPR, stop doing business in the EU and block all EU traffic!" Doh! -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] GDPR and WHOIS PRIVACY

in all cases... seriously!!) I expect it (the wrangling and legal arguments) to go on for some time yet, before this is all sorted out. I expect you'll be right, then half the online world will just ignore the GDPR and do their own thing anyhow... -- Michelle Sullivan http://www

[mailop] Heads Up

Just for a little fun and to be warned... 7 years ago I created an account that I use only for Facebook (because at the time I had a stalker ex who was successfully manipulating the Facebook 'account kill' robot into killing my account)... it is dedicated only to facebook, it gets used for

Re: [mailop] Proofpoint contact please

Resending without your personal address as it is refused everytime... Michelle Sullivan wrote: Luis E. Muñoz via mailop wrote: Hi there, Various organizations are reporting persistent issues delivering email to various sites. Normal support channels aren't working. I would be grateful

Re: [mailop] Heads Up

Charles McKean wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 9:41 AM, Ken O'Driscoll via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote: On Sat, 2018-01-20 at 11:14 +1100, Michelle Sullivan wrote: One can only conclude, they either have a leak in their API, or they altered the permissions to give out email

Re: [mailop] Heads Up

Ken O'Driscoll via mailop wrote: On Sat, 2018-01-20 at 11:14 +1100, Michelle Sullivan wrote: One can only conclude, they either have a leak in their API, or they altered the permissions to give out emails when specifically denied, or they got hacked and didn't disclose it. They had bug

Re: [mailop] Issues With the way Google Groups unsubscribe is used in headers..

ng unconfirmed subcriptions after list owners jump through several extra hoops to prove they're not spammers? Account aging is probably a good start. Wouldn't be a better idea to default to confirmed-opt-in and only allow switching that off for approved "good" users? (could be robot

Re: [mailop] Mail Transfer Agent Alternatives

to buy the new license they were given a retroactive fee as well... which would convince me to jump ship and blacklist the company from any further business if I were on the receiving end... -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing

Re: [mailop] Any Sorbs update?

when it’s complete. Regards, Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ Sent from my iPad > On 28 Sep 2018, at 04:57, Josh Nason wrote: > > Anyone know what’s up with Sorbs? I think the maintenance page has been up > for a week now. > ___ &

Re: [mailop] Sorbs Delisting Request

Robots reply first, if not resolved you can reply and it will go to real humans. Mostly within a few hours. Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ Sent from my iPad > On 31 Oct 2018, at 20:18, Noel Butler wrote: > > Hi, > > I've heard when they have high volumes of mail, i

Re: [mailop] Any Sorbs update?

Michelle Sullivan wrote: It’ll be out of “Maintenance Mode” in the next 24 hours all being well. The main database cluster is being migrated to new hardware, new software and new OS (all at the same time) It was planned as an online migration however, the support (ticket) database couldn’t

Re: [mailop] outlook.com blocking reason: S3150 "network is on our block list"

prejudice... *THEN* and only then will we get rid of the blight that is spam. Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Any iCloud admins on this list?

g list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] List of unused, big email-domains?

. If such an RBL is created and takes off, I'd be very interested in allowing people to slave the zone and host it locally. ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop -- Michelle Sullivan http

Re: [mailop] Paging Proofpoint - possible issue with SSL cert for SORBS website

://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Paging Proofpoint - possible issue with SSL cert for SORBS website

to http:// ) Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Do we need Spam folders?

. Worse when they (the receiver) silently discards them... user checks the spamfolder and their inbox and the sender thinks it all went through and the email is never seen despite people looking for it and wanting it. -- Michelle Sullivan http://ww

Re: [mailop] Google and the Message-Id Header

will use heuristics on received lines/components for weighting towards spam. Regards, Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop