FMP's mail and web server is a virtual server at Linode. We run half a dozen Mailman lists or so, all opt-in lists for a couple of non-profits and small business customers, all of which have been running successfully for many months. Today I got a large number of unsubscription notices from one of our lists, all of them for addresses at hotmail.com, msn.com and outlook.com. They contain the following text:
hotmail-com.olc.protection.outlook.com [104.47.44.33]: >>> MAIL FROM:aftm-bounces+clarkson-66=hotmail.com@lists.fmp.com BODY=8BITMIME SIZE=5492 <<< 550 5.7.1 Unfortunately, messages from [198.58.125.221] weren't sent. Please contact your Internet service provider since part of their network is on our block list (S3140). You can also refer your provider to http://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx#errors. [SN1NAM04FT034.eop-NAM04.prod.protection.outlook.com]
Has anyone seen similar problems recently with Microsoft mail customers who are Mailman list subscribers?
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Hi,
Unfortunately, yes, I have seen this behavior from Microsoft. I have no idea what triggers it, but my Linode IP has been blocklisted twice, once a bit over three years ago, and another time less than two weeks ago.
If you haven't already, try signing up for their Smart Network Data Service at https://postmaster.live.com/snds. On the FAQ page there you will find a link to submit a delivery support ticket, you can request your IP be removed from the blocklist. I have no idea how long your IP will stay on their blocklist if you don't request removal. Before requesting removal you should probably use some online checkers to insure you're not on any other blacklists, check your IP at senderscore.org, etc.
The last incident inspired me to move a high-traffic list I run from Mailman to Groups.IO.
Hope this helps,
Jayson
On 10/7/2018 12:28 PM, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
FMP's mail and web server is a virtual server at Linode. We run half a dozen Mailman lists or so, all opt-in lists for a couple of non-profits and small business customers, all of which have been running successfully for many months. Today I got a large number of unsubscription notices from one of our lists, all of them for addresses at hotmail.com, msn.com and outlook.com. They contain the following text:
hotmail-com.olc.protection.outlook.com [104.47.44.33]: >>> MAIL FROM:aftm-bounces+clarkson-66=hotmail.com@lists.fmp.com BODY=8BITMIME SIZE=5492 <<< 550 5.7.1 Unfortunately, messages from [198.58.125.221] weren't sent. Please contact your Internet service provider since part of their network is on our block list (S3140). You can also refer your provider to http://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx#errors. [SN1NAM04FT034.eop-NAM04.prod.protection.outlook.com]
Has anyone seen similar problems recently with Microsoft mail customers who are Mailman list subscribers?
In article a4550bd1-b5bd-3877-58a3-3513683f10b3@bluegrasspals.com you write:
Hi,
Unfortunately, yes, I have seen this behavior from Microsoft. I have no idea what triggers it, but my Linode IP has been blocklisted twice, once a bit over three years ago, and another time less than two weeks ago.
It may well not be you. Linode does a poor job of keeping their network clean of spammers and other miscreants. They always kick them off when you report it, but by then it's too late, so their whole network has an iffy reputation.
Linode's hosting is nothing special, either in features or price. You might consider moving your system somewhere else that manages their network better.
On Sun, 2018-10-07 at 14:25 -0400, John Levine wrote:
In article a4550bd1-b5bd-3877-58a3-3513683f10b3@bluegrasspals.com you write:
Hi,
Unfortunately, yes, I have seen this behavior from Microsoft. I have no idea what triggers it, but my Linode IP has been blocklisted twice, once a bit over three years ago, and another time less than two weeks ago.
It may well not be you. Linode does a poor job of keeping their network clean of spammers and other miscreants.
I've had a _few_ spam spews here which came from Linode IPs, but very few. Other IP blocks in Brazil, Poland, Italy, DigitalOcean, etc. harbor many more.
They always kick them off when you report it, but by then it's too late, so their whole network has an iffy reputation.
Be that as it may, the support folks at Linode are exceptional, and go the extra mile for me on any problems or questions I may have, whether it's their issues are someone else's.
Linode's hosting is nothing special, either in features or price. You might consider moving your system somewhere else that manages their network better.
I've got a lot of sweat equity into programming against their DNS API, and have an IPv6 /56 subnet from them which provides v6 addresses to our SOHO LAN. I have too much on my plate to make a major move, including 80 or so domain names on their DNS.
The Linode support folks went to bat on this particular issue and filed a delisting request with Microsoft on my address, or the /24 containing it. I've done the same from my end.
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It may well not be you. Linode does a poor job of keeping their network clean of spammers and other miscreants. They always kick them off when you report it, but by then it's too late, so their whole network has an iffy reputation.
Linode's hosting is nothing special, either in features or price. You might consider moving your system somewhere else that manages their network better. And there's the problem... you can switch hosts but not know if they manager their network better until you know they don't because your email gets blocked. Like they say in the pool hall, poke and hope. Unless there's some way to shop for a hosting company on the basis of
On 10/7/2018 1:25 PM, John Levine wrote: their "network reputation." As far as hosting companies go, like the rotisserie ad said, I just want to set it and forget it.
Hi,
I've learned this lesson the hard way. Back in early 2011 I signed up with a company called Serverpronto where I could get my own dedicated server. Their terms of service were very clear on the fact that they have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to spammers, and all the horrible things they would do to you if you even thought about getting any of their network on any Email blacklists. Well I signed up, moved lists over, and five days later I started getting bounces left and right because my IP was on blacklists. I assume it wasn't my specific IP but an IP range. I contacted support, and they did…absolutely nothing about it! They weren't willing to investigate, they weren't willing to contact the blacklists on my behalf since "they never respond," etc. I ended up leaving them and switching to Linode. They've since merged with another outfit I think, but unless they've straightened their act up big time, I wouldn't recommend them to anyone!
Just goes to show, the terms of service can be all "We hate spammers just as much as you do, and if we find out you're a spammer we'll do unspeakable things," but it might not mean a thing.
Jayson
On 10/7/2018 4:25 PM, Mike Starr wrote:
It may well not be you. Linode does a poor job of keeping their network clean of spammers and other miscreants. They always kick them off when you report it, but by then it's too late, so their whole network has an iffy reputation.
Linode's hosting is nothing special, either in features or price. You might consider moving your system somewhere else that manages their network better. And there's the problem... you can switch hosts but not know if they manager their network better until you know they don't because your email gets blocked. Like they say in the pool hall, poke and hope. Unless there's some way to shop for a hosting company on the basis of
On 10/7/2018 1:25 PM, John Levine wrote: their "network reputation." As far as hosting companies go, like the rotisserie ad said, I just want to set it and forget it.
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On Mon, 2018-10-08 at 03:57 -0400, Jayson Smith wrote:
I've learned this lesson the hard way. Back in early 2011 I signed up with a company called Serverpronto where I could get my own dedicated server. Their terms of service were very clear on the fact that they have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to spammers, and all the horrible things they would do to you if you even thought about getting any of their network on any Email blacklists. Well I signed up, moved lists over, and five days later I started getting bounces left and right because my IP was on blacklists. I assume it wasn't my specific IP but an IP range. I contacted support, and they did…absolutely nothing about it! They weren't willing to investigate, they weren't willing to contact the blacklists on my behalf since "they never respond," etc. I ended up leaving them and switching to Linode. They've since merged with another outfit I think, but unless they've straightened their act up big time, I wouldn't recommend them to anyone!
I've generally had good luck with Linode. Their tech folks are real geniuses and technically their service really rock. Their tech support staff is very responsive and helpful, well above and beyond what I might expect. I run my own mail server, know and understand the basics of email which I learned back in the 90s working for one of Austin's first ISPs.
One of the things I offer for customers is hands-off customer- configured redirection of email. If customer John Doe has a domain mydomain.com he can set up redirection so that email to john@mydomain.com redirects to, say, john.doe@gmail.com. This is a feature of the Courier MTA which is _very_ useful, and is also leveraged to redirect mail into Mailman mailing lists. Unfortunately, if john@mydomain.com gets harvested for spamming, then my server is burdened with filtering out spam to this address, and a certain amount gets through. I've written many of my own spam filtering routines, DMARC mitigation, etc. (i.e. courier-to-mailman.py in Mailman's contrib collection), but some slips through anyway, and it appears to come from MY server, if one only looks at the topmost Received header. I've had problems with public RBL blockages from time to time, and with Gmail, but I try to stay on top of it and get these resolved as they come up. Microsoft says they've "mitigated" this situation, but it'll take until tomorrow night before my server may be fully able to send email to addresses at hotmail.com, msn.com, outlook.com and live.com.
Meanwhile I have customers, including a county political party, for whom email redirection is an absolutely vital on a daily basis to their functioning and I'm going to have to tell them to take their business elsewhere ASAP, and I may have to discontinue redirection as a service offering. This is going to cost me a lot of good will and income.
Just goes to show, the terms of service can be all "We hate spammers just as much as you do, and if we find out you're a spammer we'll do unspeakable things," but it might not mean a thing.
Yep. I am amazed that email, as implemented through RFC 822 and other early protocols, still survives and hasn't gone the way of UseNet News, UUCP Mail, Gopher and Archie. It's probably the most stressed service on the Internet what with c.a. 90% of email being UCE, and there are so many misbegotten attempts out there to deal with the problem in ways that break email on the Internet, often violation of RFCs. It's a tribute to the engineering genius of the internet pioneers who developed the email protocols that it survives at all and hasn't been replaced entirely with proprietary services such as Facebook Messenger.
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On Mon, 2018-10-08 at 11:01 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
I've generally had good luck with Linode. Their tech folks are real geniuses and technically their service really rock.
Next time you're on one of their nodes do this:
egrep "(MHz|model name)" /proc/cpuinfo
For less $$ you can get newer/faster hardware elsewhere (and some even come with pure SSD RAID10 storage) All I'm saying is that it pays to shop around.
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 v6 @ 3.70GHz cpu MHz : 3695.998 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 v6 @ 3.70GHz cpu MHz : 3695.998
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On Mon, 2018-10-08 at 12:23 -0400, Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users wrote:
On Mon, 2018-10-08 at 11:01 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
I've generally had good luck with Linode. Their tech folks are real geniuses and technically their service really rock.
Next time you're on one of their nodes do this:
egrep "(MHz|model name)" /proc/cpuinfo
For less $$ you can get newer/faster hardware elsewhere (and some even come with pure SSD RAID10 storage) All I'm saying is that it pays to shop around.
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 v6 @ 3.70GHz cpu MHz : 3695.998 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 v6 @ 3.70GHz cpu MHz : 3695.998
My linode has a quad:
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz cpu MHz : 2800.000
Not as fast, but speed isn't everything, and the speed is quite adequate for my small email and web hosting business. I _did_ shop around, and when I settled on Linode back in 2014 it was recommended by people in the IT business whom I trust. As I said, I've been quite impressed with their technical skills and the quality of their support.
On top of that, I'm using their DNS services for probably 90 domain names (with programming for several facilities in place which leverages their DNS API), and have an IPv6 /56 assigned to me from them, routed through a VPN to our SOHO LAN. On top of that, my wife and I are up against some major medical issues which are occupying all of our available time which I'm NOT spending on trying to keep FMP's customers' mail service open to the full Internet. Switching virtual server providers at this point is NOT an option. I'm 77, _should_ be retired, and am stressed to the breaking point with dealing with all the crap coming down the pike at us. Thanks for your comment, though.
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On 10/07/2018 09:28 AM, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
FMP's mail and web server is a virtual server at Linode. We run half a dozen Mailman lists or so, all opt-in lists for a couple of non-profits and small business customers, all of which have been running successfully for many months. Today I got a large number of unsubscription notices from one of our lists, all of them for addresses at hotmail.com, msn.com and outlook.com. They contain the following text:
hotmail-com.olc.protection.outlook.com [104.47.44.33]: >>> MAIL FROM:aftm-bounces+clarkson-66=hotmail.com@lists.fmp.com BODY=8BITMIME SIZE=5492 <<< 550 5.7.1 Unfortunately, messages from [198.58.125.221] weren't sent. Please contact your Internet service provider since part of their network is on our block list (S3140). You can also refer your provider to http://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx#errors. [SN1NAM04FT034.eop-NAM04.prod.protection.outlook.com]
Has anyone seen similar problems recently with Microsoft mail customers who are Mailman list subscribers?
I haven't seen Microsoft IP block bounces on any of the lists I'm involved with in some time, but I used to have other issues with them.
You need to go to http://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx. In the second paragraph under "Sender services, tools, and issue submission" you will see "click here to contact support" which goes to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=614866. Submit that form and be prepared for an iterative process in which you feel you are dealing with a robot, but you may ultimately get this fixed.
Also, signing up for "Smart Network Data Services" https://postmaster.live.com/snds and maybe other things from https://sendersupport.olc.protection.outlook.com/pm/services.aspx can help you keep up with what they think of you.
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On Sunday, October 7, 2018, 11:28:28 AM, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
LH> FMP's mail and web server is a virtual server at Linode. We run half a LH> dozen Mailman lists or so, all opt-in lists for a couple of non-profits LH> and small business customers, all of which have been running LH> successfully for many months. Today I got a large number of LH> unsubscription notices from one of our lists, all of them for addresses LH> at hotmail.com, msn.com and outlook.com. They contain the following LH> text:
[...]
LH> Has anyone seen similar problems recently with Microsoft mail customers LH> who are Mailman list subscribers?
No problems here with the two lists I run, although I'm not a stranger to problems with blocklists or list users inadvertently reporting list messages as spam.
This is almost certainly not going to have anything to do with Mailman, but more to do with the reputation of the IP address of your virtual server at Linode or IP netblock ("neighborhood") you are sending from.
If you Google around for the error you reported, you should be able to find a form to request de-listing. Perhaps they will while-list your server's IP address even if they are not thrilled with the overall experience with emails from Linode address space.
-- Best regards, Robert Braver rbraver@ohww.norman.ok.us
On Sun, 2018-10-07 at 12:19 -0500, Robert Braver wrote:
This is almost certainly not going to have anything to do with Mailman, but more to do with the reputation of the IP address of your virtual server at Linode or IP netblock ("neighborhood") you are sending from.
Understood. I had thought that perhaps others on this list had had similar problems and I could get a bit of a handle on the lay of the land with MS from others. This is indeed the case.
If you Google around for the error you reported, you should be able to find a form to request de-listing. Perhaps they will while-list your server's IP address even if they are not thrilled with the overall experience with emails from Linode address space.
I got good responses here from Mark Sapiro and Stephen Turnbull with concrete suggestions on resolving the problem. Unfortunately, Microsoft has informed me that my IP address "does not qualify for mitigation", so I've asked for more details.
It looks as if I may need to unload all my Mailman list hosting clients and send them to a commercial service such as MailChimp.
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Lindsay Haisley writes:
hotmail-com.olc.protection.outlook.com [104.47.44.33]: >>> MAIL FROM:aftm-bounces+clarkson-66=hotmail.com@lists.fmp.com BODY=8BITMIME SIZE=5492 <<< 550 5.7.1 Unfortunately, messages from [198.58.125.221] weren't sent. Please contact your Internet service provider since part of their network is on our block list (S3140). You can also refer your provider to http://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx#errors. [SN1NAM04FT034.eop-NAM04.prod.protection.outlook.com]
Has anyone seen similar problems recently with Microsoft mail customers who are Mailman list subscribers?
Yes, I've seen a similar problem. I was actually the source for a bit of spam (backscatter from attempted subscriptions, fortunately those lists don't need to be open subscription so I just blocked them all with action DISCARD).
However, in my case it was specific to my IP, I was able to go to their website and enter my IP into a "I won't do it again" page, and after about 48 hours, mail was flowing again. YMMV.
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