Re: [mailop] Anyone from dmarcian here?

2018-01-24 Thread Paul Kincaid-Smith
Forwarded to Tim D so he can reach out to Kirk. Paul Kincaid-Smith EmailGrades > On Jan 24, 2018, at 11:47, Kirk MacDonald > wrote: > > Please contact me off list. > > The question is in regards to a domain who appears to be signed for DMARC > reports via dmarcian, but

Re: [mailop] Best practices for Google Postmaster Tools?

2018-02-08 Thread Paul Kincaid-Smith
API. Good luck with your project. Let us know how it progresses. Paul Kincaid-Smith EmailGrades > On Feb 8, 2018, at 21:47, David Carriger > wrote: > > Thanks for the tips. We're currently doing double DKIM right now, the > question in my mind is whether it would be

Re: [mailop] Best practices for Google Postmaster Tools?

2018-02-08 Thread Paul Kincaid-Smith
ck-ID header? Would that give you the level of visibility you need? Paul Kincaid-Smith EmailGrades > On Feb 8, 2018, at 22:13, Paul Kincaid-Smith wrote: > > David, > > I had a conversation with the product manager responsible for Google > Postmaster Tools some time

Re: [mailop] Best practices for Google Postmaster Tools?

2018-02-08 Thread Paul Kincaid-Smith
l. For practical reasons, they won’t track and report on all senders. Paul Kincaid-Smith EmailGrades > On Feb 8, 2018, at 23:19, David Carriger > wrote: > > We are using a unique customer identifier as one of the fields in the > Feedback-ID header, and that's provided som

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2018-02-14 Thread Paul Kincaid-Smith
Hi Scott, Spamhaus lists that IP as a "courtesy SBL listing" -- presumably at the request of the IP's owner. Here are other IPs Spamhaus lists as a courtesy: https://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings/courtesy.spamhaus.org Paul Kincaid-Smith EmailGrades On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at

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2018-02-14 Thread Paul Kincaid-Smith
picious outbound messages with a header that identifies them as suspect. Paul Kincaid-Smith EmailGrades On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 11:12 AM, Jay Hennigan wrote: > On 2/14/18 9:47 AM, Paul Kincaid-Smith wrote: > >> Hi Scott, >> >> Spamhaus lists that IP as a "courtesy S

Re: [mailop] Reg. Instant delivery within sec. for OTP based mailer

2018-03-10 Thread Paul Kincaid-Smith
An ESP called PostmarkApp publishes their own "time to inbox" metrics and updates them every five minutes. Their numbers may be a good benchmark reference point for you. See https://status.postmarkapp.com/ They've generously published Ruby code for their "time to inbox" measurement tool, in case a

Re: [mailop] Hotmail/msn/lutlook performing unsolicited updates to users' safe- and blocked-sender lists?

2018-06-13 Thread Paul Kincaid-Smith
k are similar to read rates at Gmail and Yahoo! -- even though this same ESP's inbox placement is far lower at Outlook (55-65%) than Gmail and Yahoo! (~80%). (I'm probably measuring read rates differently than you. I use IMAP's "message read" flag, not an open tracking pix

Re: [mailop] Hotmail/msn/lutlook performing unsolicited updates to users' safe- and blocked-sender lists?

2018-06-13 Thread Paul Kincaid-Smith
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Michael Rathbun wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 18:46:53 +, Michael Wise < > michael.w...@microsoft.com> > wrote: > > > > >Do these accounts ever *SEND* email? > >… Asking for a friend. > > Ours don't. No idea about Paul's sampling methods. > > mdr > > Yes, the

Re: [mailop] Vadesecure Contact

2018-08-30 Thread Paul Kincaid-Smith
Hi Daniel, I have forwarded your request to a well-placed contact at Vade Secure. Paul Kincaid-Smith EmailGrades > On Aug 30, 2018, at 14:44, Daniel Baqueiro via mailop > wrote: > > Hello, > > If there's anyone from Vadesecure on the list or anyone has a contact, I

Re: [mailop] GMail Delisting

2018-09-07 Thread Paul Kincaid-Smith
ore it causes significant pain for others, yourself, and your customers. Paul Kincaid-Smith EmailGrades On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 10:06 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: > I don't know how much value outbound rate limiters have. Some of the > blacklists I got on did so after seeing 1 SPAM message. If a use

Re: [mailop] deactivation of hard bounces

2019-02-27 Thread Paul Kincaid-Smith
who don’t. (And here, I presume ContactLab won’t push retries past the CSA-imposed limit of 3.) Paul Kincaid-Smith EmailGrades > On Feb 27, 2019, at 09:16, Marco Franceschetti via mailop > wrote: > > Hello, > > We at contactlab are considering a change in the deactivation

Re: [mailop] Anti-spam recommendations for a user-generated-content host

2015-02-19 Thread Paul Kincaid-Smith
Hello Gil, I am the postmaster for magisto, an app centered around user generated content > (UGC). we enjoy some popularity, and with popularity comes abuse. There > are users who utilize magisto to generate content to be used for > spamvertisement and/or other unsavory content. they will then "in

Re: [mailop] Anti-spam recommendations for a user-generated-content host

2015-02-21 Thread Paul Kincaid-Smith
ig webmail providers. > > Thanks a lot, extremely useful. > > Gil Bahat, > DevOps/Postmaster, > Magisto Ltd. > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Paul Kincaid-Smith > wrote: > >> Hello Gil, >> >> I am the postmaster for magisto, an app centered aroun

Re: [mailop] Deliverability services for non-newsletter services

2017-01-26 Thread Paul Kincaid-Smith
net http://www.senderbase.org/lookup/?search_string=mandrillapp.com http://www.senderbase.org/lookup/org/?search_string=SendGrid etc... Regards, Paul Kincaid-Smith EmailGrades ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] AOL contact

2017-02-03 Thread Paul Kincaid-Smith
Replied off list. On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Sridhar Kakkillaya wrote: > Hello, > > We are having some delivery issues with AOL. Is there anyone from AOL here > that I could talk to? Please contact off-list. > > Thanks. > > Regards, > > -- > *Sridhar Kakkillaya* > Director of Operations and

Re: [mailop] Mails to microsoft

2017-02-04 Thread Paul Kincaid-Smith
soft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=614866&clcid> and a process so you can reach the right team there. The choice is yours. Being stubborn won't solve your problem. If you want to send mail from your Hetzner server to recipients at Hotmail, then follow their process. -- Paul Kincaid-Smith On Sat, F

Re: [mailop] Spamhaus CSS listings of normal mail servers?

2017-03-28 Thread Paul Kincaid-Smith
Hi Robert, I've found a way to help you resolve your CSS issues with Spamhaus. I'll contact you off-list. -- Paul Kincaid-Smith On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Robert L Mathews wrote: > Sadly, I'm still having a problem where my hosting company's mail > servers kee

Re: [mailop] Spamhaus CSS listings of normal mail servers?

2017-03-30 Thread Paul Kincaid-Smith
Robert, thanks for explaining the root cause of your Spamhaus CSS problem and what you changed to fix it. I appreciate your generosity to share what you learned -- helpful insights for the rest of us, and testimony to the collaborative value of this Mailop list. On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 10:50 AM, R

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

2019-05-09 Thread Paul Kincaid-Smith via mailop
educe the risk of list bombing: https://www.m3aawg.org/rel-WebFormHeader As your email volume grows, you may qualify for a Gmail Postmaster Tools account, which can provide helpful insight: https://www.gmail.com/postmaster/ Regards, Paul Kincaid-Smith EmailGrades On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 10:48 AM S

Re: [mailop] What to do with Amazon SES?

2016-02-11 Thread Paul Kincaid-Smith via mailop
Hi Petar, Amazon has an email-specific abuse address: email-ab...@amazon.com. Let me know if you need to escalate, and I'll make off-list introductions to the good folks on Amazon's email anti-spam team. Cheers, Paul Kincaid-Smith VP of Email Delivery SendGrid -- Email Delivery.

Re: [mailop] Hotmail connection errors

2016-04-06 Thread Paul Kincaid-Smith via mailop
Hi Tara, We don't see anything unusual on our end, either. Paul Kincaid-Smith VP of Email Delivery w: +1-303-625-7009 SendGrid -- Email Delivery. Simplified. On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 11:25 AM, Matt Vernhout wrote: > Sorry Tara, > > Haven't seen anything on our end. > &

Re: [mailop] Hotmail connection errors

2016-04-06 Thread Paul Kincaid-Smith via mailop
(312)725-0130 > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Sanket Jain wrote: > >> ​I dont see anything unusual. ​ >> >> Thanks >> >> Sanket >> ​Maropost​ >> >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Paul Kincaid-Smith via mailop < >>

Re: [mailop] How long does an IP address take to "Warm up"?

2016-04-13 Thread Paul Kincaid-Smith via mailop
Hi Robert, Gmail's systems are very sensitive to sudden changes. Start with just a few/tens of emails the first day and ramp up slowly -- an *order of magnitude* at a time. Eventually their machine learning systems will discover that recipients want your mail and adjust accordingly. Paul On Wed,

Re: [mailop] The oligopoly has won.

2022-09-12 Thread Paul Kincaid-Smith via mailop
t were blackholed are not accounted for here. This sample also excludes messages sent or relayed by commercial ISPs on behalf of these mailbox providers' sender domains.) -- Paul Kincaid-Smith On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 1:53 PM Brandon Long via mailop wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 12,