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moderated Groups.io Allegedly Blacklisted #misc

Robert Oshel
 

It would appear that not all email providers are blocking Groups.IO messages because of the Spamhaus action.  Apparently some, including Gmail, are simply putting some or all of them in Spam folders.  For example, I've started getting a fair number of Groups.IO messages placed erroneously in my Gmail spam folder which previously almost never happened. 

   Bob


On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:01 AM Chris Jones via groups.io <chrisjones12=btinternet.com@groups.io> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 02:30 PM, Robert Oshel wrote:
You can set a filter in Gmail so it never sends messages from Groups.IO to spam.
I'm sorry but you are missing the point here. The problem is that Spamhaus has blacklisted Groups.io and service providers are reacting accordingly by bouncing Groups.io traffic in its entirety, not shunting it into individual's spam boxes.

At the moment it seems to be OK, but who knows what the next few hours will bring...

Chris

Mark Fletcher
 

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 8:11 AM Chris Jones via groups.io <chrisjones12=btinternet.com@groups.io> wrote:

Mark; when Groups.io gets blacklisted do you receive any formal notification or are you reliant on one of us flagging the problem up here or via the support email address?

I do not get any notification. There are three indicators: complaints on beta@, mail queues filling up, and error messages from email servers when we try to send messages to them.

With Spamhaus, we've now been blocked 3 times in the last week. They give me the times that they've seen spam, within +/- 5 minutes. I've gone through the logs and tried to correlate email addresses that we've sent messages to during those times. That has resulted in 2 email addresses, both of which are legit and long term subscribers to multiple groups that have received a lot of email over the past several days.

It could be that messages are being delayed as they're routed to Spamhous, so the time frames given may be incorrect. Or something else. Clearly I'm missing something.

They responded to my email yesterday afternoon with a canned response about checking for malware on my server. I responded immediately, and have not gotten anything back as of yet. They say do not try to send multiple emails to support, so I've been holding off.

There was an instance maybe a year and a half ago, where a group transferred from Yahoo. One of the email addresses was a honeypot email address for the Trend Micro blocklist. That email address had been on the Yahoo Group for years previously. But when the group moved over here, that triggered a block. I wonder if something similar is happening here.


Mark
Chris Jones
 

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 03:25 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote:
I do not get any notification. There are three indicators: complaints on beta@, mail queues filling up, and error messages from email servers when we try to send messages to them.
Thanks for describing the position; I asked because I would not want to post on beta about something that had already been flagged up automatically. At least we now know that raising it here is not superfluous noise.

At least I hope it isn't. :)

Chris.
Mark Fletcher
 

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 8:33 AM Chris Jones via groups.io <chrisjones12=btinternet.com@groups.io> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 03:25 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote:
I do not get any notification. There are three indicators: complaints on beta@, mail queues filling up, and error messages from email servers when we try to send messages to them.
Thanks for describing the position; I asked because I would not want to post on beta about something that had already been flagged up automatically. At least we now know that raising it here is not superfluous noise.

At least I hope it isn't. :)

It isn't. :-)

Mark 
J_Catlady
 

Good that some of them treat spamhaus itself as spam! :-)


On Oct 26, 2020, at 8:12 AM, Robert Oshel <robert.oshel@...> wrote:


It would appear that not all email providers are blocking Groups.IO messages because of the Spamhaus action.  Apparently some, including Gmail, are simply putting some or all of them in Spam folders.  For example, I've started getting a fair number of Groups.IO messages placed erroneously in my Gmail spam folder which previously almost never happened. 

   Bob

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:01 AM Chris Jones via groups.io <chrisjones12=btinternet.com@groups.io> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 02:30 PM, Robert Oshel wrote:
You can set a filter in Gmail so it never sends messages from Groups.IO to spam.
I'm sorry but you are missing the point here. The problem is that Spamhaus has blacklisted Groups.io and service providers are reacting accordingly by bouncing Groups.io traffic in its entirety, not shunting it into individual's spam boxes.

At the moment it seems to be OK, but who knows what the next few hours will bring...

Chris


--
J

Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu
Andrew Partan
 

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 03:25 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote:
I do not get any notification.
Odd; I do get notifications from spamcop.
Its From: @reports.spamcop.net and sent to abuse@
and it has a full copy of the offending message.

Andrew Partan
John Wirtz SF
 

Bob, 

 

That’s useful, how do you do it?

 

John Wirtz

 

From: main@beta.groups.io <main@beta.groups.io> On Behalf Of Robert Oshel
Sent: 26 October 2020 14:27
To: main@beta.groups.io
Subject: Re: [beta] Groups.io Allegedly Blacklisted #misc

 

You can set a filter in Gmail so it never sends messages from Groups.IO to spam.

 

   Bob

 

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 7:48 AM Bärbel Stephenson <Lismibaebi@...> wrote:

During the last couple of days I have noticed that I quite a few messages are going into the Spam folder at gmail.  Messages from groups that never went into the spam folder before.

Barbara

John Wirtz SF
 

Chris, 

 

One of the reasons I wanted to use a group rather than do bulk email from my own IP is that I encountered this problem and it wasn’t stable.  Every provider has different criteria, few of them report the bouncing (gmail in particular).

It has been a real problem for two or three years now.  I’ve attempted to get support but failed miserably, no answer to support emails, nothing.  Many asking for fees to unblock, etc.  One colleague said: just get “G Suite”.  I think that exactly what Google want.  There’s something going on and I can’t believe it’s only about spam.  Imagine if you post man filtered your mail before he put it though your letter box.  That’s exactly what these providers are doiung, makinf devisions for us anmd not giving us any support to fix it and authenticate our business activity.

 

But, for those who wonder why we pay, we have a (real person) who attempts to fix things for us.

 

Cheers

 

John Wirtz

 

From: main@beta.groups.io <main@beta.groups.io> On Behalf Of Chris Jones via groups.io
Sent: 26 October 2020 15:12
To: main@beta.groups.io
Subject: Re: [beta] Groups.io Allegedly Blacklisted #misc

 

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 02:26 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote:

We were blocked again by Spamhaus last night for a few hours.

BT have also restored normal service - for now anyway!

Mark; when Groups.io gets blacklisted do you receive any formal notification or are you reliant on one of us flagging the problem up here or via the support email address?

Chris

J_Catlady
 

Sounds like that thing where to stay in business you have to pay the mob.


On Oct 26, 2020, at 11:22 AM, John Wirtz SF <john@...> wrote:



Chris, 

 

One of the reasons I wanted to use a group rather than do bulk email from my own IP is that I encountered this problem and it wasn’t stable.  Every provider has different criteria, few of them report the bouncing (gmail in particular).

It has been a real problem for two or three years now.  I’ve attempted to get support but failed miserably, no answer to support emails, nothing.  Many asking for fees to unblock, etc.  One colleague said: just get “G Suite”.  I think that exactly what Google want.  There’s something going on and I can’t believe it’s only about spam.  Imagine if you post man filtered your mail before he put it though your letter box.  That’s exactly what these providers are doiung, makinf devisions for us anmd not giving us any support to fix it and authenticate our business activity.

 

But, for those who wonder why we pay, we have a (real person) who attempts to fix things for us.

 

Cheers

 

John Wirtz

 

From: main@beta.groups.io <main@beta.groups.io> On Behalf Of Chris Jones via groups.io
Sent: 26 October 2020 15:12
To: main@beta.groups.io
Subject: Re: [beta] Groups.io Allegedly Blacklisted #misc

 

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 02:26 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote:

We were blocked again by Spamhaus last night for a few hours.

BT have also restored normal service - for now anyway!

Mark; when Groups.io gets blacklisted do you receive any formal notification or are you reliant on one of us flagging the problem up here or via the support email address?

Chris


--
J

Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu
Joseph Hudson
 

Mark, I'm seeing delay again with Spectrum/TWC. As of 2 o'clock.

On Oct 26, 2020, at 9:26 AM, Mark Fletcher <markf@corp.groups.io> wrote:

Hi All,

We were blocked again by Spamhaus last night for a few hours. They have not been helpful as of yet, and I have not been able to isolate what address is causing the blocking.

Good news is that I've gotten word from Charter that they have removed the block. So, some progress.

Thanks,
Mark
Roger Colwell
 

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 03:25 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote:
It could be that messages are being delayed as they're routed to Spamhous, so the time frames given may be incorrect. Or something else. Clearly I'm missing something.
Mark, is there any possibility that your mailserver is being scored negatively by its hostname using the .IO TLD (there may have been some earlier discussion about this but I cannot find it)? I presume you're the owner of groupsio.com (as it is a registered domain), so did you ever use that in earlier times?

Roger
ro-esp
 

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 07:22 PM, John Wirtz SF wrote:

Imagine if your postman filtered your
mail before he put it through your letter box. That’s exactly what these
providers are doing, making decisions for us and not giving us any support
to fix it and authenticate our business activity.
Yes, that's one reason I am with a "small" ( thousands of subscribers) provider and happily paying a few euro. It uses spamassassin, which means I can (/have to) check my spambox for "ham" and unflag it.

groetjes/ĝis, Ronaldo
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