One of our email servers has been blacklisted #update
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HI All, One of the two servers that sends email for us has been listed on a blocklist, which means that many domains are currently not accepting email from it. I am trying to get more information as to why the machine has been listed. Unfortunately, I don't yet know when this will be resolved. When it is resolved, the email will be delivered. I'll post updates when I know more. Thanks, |
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Hi Mark, Is there any info on which email addresses are most likely to be affected? And is there anything we can tell our group members about this - for example, that their emails may not post to groups, or that they may not receive group emails? Thanks. J On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 8:26 PM Mark Fletcher <markf@corp.groups.io> wrote:
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On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 8:39 PM J_Catlady <JanetOliviaCatlady@...> wrote:
Emails sent to your groups will be posted and show up in the archives. It's just on the end that sends out emails. Unfortunately, there's no easy way for you to know if your group's emails go through the blocked server. We select which server to use based on a group's internal ID, a 64-bit number. We just do ID%2 to figure out which server to use. Most (I think all, but am not positive) non group post emails are sent through the other, currently not blocked, server. These are things like moderator notifications, confirmation emails, etc. Hope this helps. Mark |
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Thanks, Mark.
-- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. |
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Hi All, And just like that, the block has been lifted. Email is starting to flow again; my guess is that we'll be caught up in the next hour or so (we can't send it all at once, the receiving email servers would be deeply unhappy if we did so). It appears that perhaps some premium groups have directly added some email addresses that aren't actually people, but spamtraps. I will be investigating it in the morning. Thanks, Mark |
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On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 04:26 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote:
One of the two servers that sends email for us has been listed on a blocklist, which means that many domains are currently not accepting email from it.We appear to be blacklisted again!  Regards Andy |
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On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 4:34 AM Andy Wedge <andy_wedge@...> wrote:
It's true. Our other server has been blacklisted. I'm trying to contact Spamhaus now. Sigh. Thanks, Mark |
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Hi All, The blacklist that was affecting one of our servers has been lifted, at least for now. A lot of email has been delivered in the last half an hour, but a few places have cached the blacklist listing, including Comcast. Hopefully, they'll refresh soon and start accepting email from us. Previously, the block was lifted for an hour earlier today before it was reinstated. I don't know why. I have been in contact with Spamhaus. They provided a little bit of information, but that information does not show a problem with us, best I can tell. I've asked for more information. It's been a day. Thanks, |
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From: main@beta.groups.io <main@beta.groups.io> On Behalf Of Mark Fletcher
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2023 3:34 PM To: main@beta.groups.io Subject: Re: [beta] One of our email servers has been blacklisted #update
Hi All, The blacklist that was affecting one of our servers has been lifted, at least for now. A lot of email has been delivered in the last half an hour, but a few places have cached the blacklist listing, including Comcast. Hopefully, they'll refresh soon and start accepting email from us. Previously, the block was lifted for an hour earlier today before it was reinstated. I don't know why. I have been in contact with Spamhaus. They provided a little bit of information, but that information does not show a problem with us, best I can tell. I've asked for more information. It's been a day. Thanks, |
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On 21 Jan 2023 at 15:33, Mark Fletcher wrote:
Previously, the block was lifted for an hour earlier today before it wasThanks Mark, for keeping the lines of communication open. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: shayes@..., but if you use gmail, hayesstw@... Blog: https://methodius.blogspot.com/ Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525 |
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—— On Jan 21, 2023, at 18:33, Mark Fletcher <markf@corp.groups.io> wrote:
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I got the information about the blacklisting problem because I am on the Beta group, however the information does not seem to be available to users who are not (some of whom were wondering what happened to their emails yesterday). The site groups.io status has nothing on it: https://status.groups.io/#:~:text=No%20incidents%20reported%20today.
Should it have had a message?
Noel
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Saturday (1/21) about 5:30 EST I followed the spamhaus notes in the groups.io log and completed the request to unblock the particular server's ip. I didn't recognize the #'s as mine, so must have been the one groups.io server that was being blocked. Shortly after that my undelivered mail came. Maybe that was a factor in the first unblocking.
Anthony |
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Hi List,
After reading the posts about the blacklisting of Groups.io’s email servers, I’m wanting to understand more about how this works and who exactly is in charge when it comes to this blacklisting. I own a handful of Groups.io lists and am subscribed to a lot more and the traffic I get from those lists would hardly be considered spam. I have one email address and have used it exclusively for over 20 years so you can imagine the multitude of emails I get that are advertising plain and simple and none of them are coming from Groups.io.
Who exactly is in charge of controlling email servers and has the power to blacklist them? I’m curious since they aren’t taking any action with respect to the hundreds of email I receive weekly from various entities that are obviously peddling their products or services. What action can the user community take when an email server belonging to Groups.io gets inappropriately blacklisted?
Thanks for helping me understand the process.
Alan Lemly
From: main@beta.groups.io <main@beta.groups.io> On Behalf Of Anthony Angelo
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2023 5:23 PM To: main@beta.groups.io Subject: Re: [beta] One of our email servers has been blacklisted #update
Saturday (1/21) about 5:30 EST I followed the spamhaus notes in the groups.io log and completed the request to unblock the particular server's ip. I didn't recognize the #'s as mine, so must have been the one groups.io server that was being blocked. Shortly after that my undelivered mail came. Maybe that was a factor in the first unblocking. |
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Glenn Glazer
There is no single "who". Each mail
service domain is run independently. For example, you and I have
gmail accounts, so the spam and blacklisting management for mail
coming to us is done by Google. If someone has a Yahoo! email,
then Yahoo! determines if an incoming email is blacklisted and so
on.
Best, Glenn On 01/22/2023 20:56, Alan Lemly wrote:
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PG&E Delenda Est |
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Hi All, I apologize; yes I should have updated https://status.groups.io when we were being blocked. We have not been blocked since Saturday. I don't have any more information from Spamhaus, other than "we know you're not a spammer." Which, I mean, great, but why block us? Some groups.io emails are ending up in Spamhaus spam traps, and I need to figure out why. (The emails are normal group messages, and not spam). I have one theory involving people with their own domains. The theory is that these domains expire at some point (because the person forgot/decided not to renew them). Then a domain squatter picks up the domain and starts accepting all email sent to the domain (so our bounce processing doesn't get triggered). I have examples of this happening. I have circumstantial evidence that suggests somehow those emails end up in Spamhaus spam traps. Regardless of what happens to these emails, we need to detect when a domain moves to a squatter, and then unsubscribe/ban anyone with an email address on that domain. And then also prevent anyone new from using a squatted domain for their email address (and also recognize when a squatted domain is 'unsquatted'). I will be working on defining a system for that today. Once I have the system outlined, I'll post to beta how it will work. Thanks, Mark |
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I am glad that fastmail was not black listed, a few friends who use spectrum, I believe were black listed.
From: main@beta.groups.io <main@beta.groups.io> On Behalf Of Mark Fletcher
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2023 9:52 AM To: main@beta.groups.io Subject: Re: [beta] One of our email servers has been blacklisted #update
Hi All,
I apologize; yes I should have updated https://status.groups.io when we were being blocked. We have not been blocked since Saturday.
I don't have any more information from Spamhaus, other than "we know you're not a spammer." Which, I mean, great, but why block us? Some groups.io emails are ending up in Spamhaus spam traps, and I need to figure out why. (The emails are normal group messages, and not spam). I have one theory involving people with their own domains. The theory is that these domains expire at some point (because the person forgot/decided not to renew them). Then a domain squatter picks up the domain and starts accepting all email sent to the domain (so our bounce processing doesn't get triggered). I have examples of this happening. I have circumstantial evidence that suggests somehow those emails end up in Spamhaus spam traps.
Regardless of what happens to these emails, we need to detect when a domain moves to a squatter, and then unsubscribe/ban anyone with an email address on that domain. And then also prevent anyone new from using a squatted domain for their email address (and also recognize when a squatted domain is 'unsquatted'). I will be working on defining a system for that today. Once I have the system outlined, I'll post to beta how it will work.
Thanks, Mark |
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Mark and all,
What is the status of this now? I have been noticing for quite some time that a significant portion of my group's messages do not appear in my iPhone's inbox. But then I check, and they do appear on my Macbook, so I always deduce that I'm imagining things. However, today I double and triple-checked and waited for the missing messages to appear on my iPhone, and they don't. This includes about a quarter of the messages from one of my new group members. They're all there on the Mac. Does this make any sense? Could it be related to the problem in this topic? I don't see how it could, but what could be going on? -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. |
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Donald Hellen
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On Sun, 29 Jan 2023 11:16:29 -0800, "J_Catlady" <JanetOliviaCatlady@...> wrote: I have been noticing for quite some time that a significant portion of my group's messages do not appear in my iPhone's inbox. But then I check, and they do appear on my MacbookI don't know if this will be helpful or not, but I'll share with you how my email works between phone and laptop. Do you have your email program on your MAC set to delete messages on server? If you do, and check email there first, it won't be available when you check for them on your iPhone. As an example, I use Forte Agent as my email client in Windows on my laptop. I have it set to delete messages from server once it downloads my email. On my phone, I use Aqua Mail as my email client, and have it set to NOT delete messages on the email server. If I check email on the phone first, I can then see them on my laptop's email program. If I check them on my laptop, my phone won't be able to "see" them since they're seleted from the server. Donald ---------------------------------------------------- Some ham radio groups you may be interested in: https://groups.io/g/ICOM https://groups.io/g/Ham-Antennas https://groups.io/g/HamRadioHelp https://groups.io/g/Baofeng https://groups.io/g/CHIRP https://rf-amplifiers.groups.io/g/main |
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Donald Hellen
On Sun, 29 Jan 2023 14:27:43 -0500, "Donald Hellen" <donhellen@...>
wrote: since they're seleted from the server.--------------------------------------------------------- This should have read: "since they're deleted from the server" Donald ---------------------------------------------------- Some ham radio groups you may be interested in: https://groups.io/g/ICOM https://groups.io/g/Ham-Antennas https://groups.io/g/HamRadioHelp https://groups.io/g/Baofeng https://groups.io/g/CHIRP https://rf-amplifiers.groups.io/g/main |
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