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 vanderaj
A.k.a.: Andrew van der Stock
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| posted on August 15th, 2012 at 09:14 AM |
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Administrivia: E-mail and password resets - mostly working!
Hi there
I've been working on improving why our mail is blocked by the major Australian ISPs. It turns out they have very aggressive and non-RFC compliant
anti-spam controls. I'm working to tune our e-mail settings including:
a) rate limiting mail to particular ISPs to one or two e-mails per hour (!)
b) running multiple e-mai server instances to allow DKIM and SPF and multiple reverse IP addresses to work (these decrease the "spammy" score used
by the particular antispam appliances that you see at ISP edge networks.
c) configuring and testing DKIM (domain key identified mail) so that the mails produced by the forum are digitally signed and can be confirmed as
authentic by DKIM aware MTAs
d) working out if there are particular ISPs that are still stupid.
The list is as follows:
iiNet - refuses to allow us to clear the backlog to their server. There's about 30-40 mails outstanding. I will use back channels to try and clear
this as honestly, they are wrong.
iPrimus - OMG IMHO these idiots shouldn't be allowed near the Internet. Tried calling them yesterday but outright refused to allow me to talk to the
folks who look after their mail servers because I wasn't an iPrimus customer. I might prevent you from signing up if you are an iPrimus customer if I
can't fix the mail backlog. You are probably missing a goodly percentage of all your e-mails.
Optus - these folks are more cluey, but run stupid software that is not RFC compliant. Mail is trickling through at the rate of about 1 e-mail per
day. This obviously is not enough to allow for the average number of password resets.
BigPond - ditto, but the backlog to BP has cleared.
However, now that the backlog is gone, if you have mates you know can't get onto the system, please ask them to try now, and inspect their spam
folder for mails from us. If you still get stuck, please phone me on 0451 057 580 and I'll personally reset your password and strongly recommend you
use GMail or Yahoo mail instead.
thanks,
Andrew
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 Lateral
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| posted on January 25th, 2013 at 07:27 AM |
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Hi Andrew
I am a new member and really enjoy using this forum.
Am I correct in thinking that the automatically generated email notifications are still not working?
Regards
Greg
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Lateral
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| posted on March 5th, 2013 at 02:54 PM |
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Hi Again Andrew
I just received a flood of notification emails and PM's whereas previously I have received none.
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vanderaj
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| posted on March 5th, 2013 at 05:55 PM |
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Yep, this is our e-mail system back up and functioning. I'll keep a close eye on it. It's not all of the notifications - it was hammering everyone
hard so I deleted 3800 or so e-mails in the queue after we started getting blocked.
thanks
Andrew
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Wv00vw
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| posted on March 5th, 2013 at 08:51 PM |
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Thanks Andrew for sorting my password out, cheers
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vanderaj
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| posted on March 6th, 2013 at 12:23 PM |
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Thanks to Barls, it looks like the backlog has been completely cleared! Wow!
If you know someone is still stuck for a password reset, please let us know so I can get 'em processed and back here! 
thanks,
Andrew
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Flintstones
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| posted on March 6th, 2013 at 01:27 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by vanderaj it was hammering everyone hard so I deleted 3800 or so e-mails in the queue after we started getting blocked.
thanks
Andrew
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I got hammered with 500+ emails that came through..... 
All cleared out now, took a while.....
Cheers
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| posted on March 12th, 2013 at 04:03 PM |
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So, is the thread notification working?
Regards
Greg
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