Comments on: Email forwarding changes and UI downtime https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2008/11/19/email-forwarding-changes-and-ui-downtime/ A blog from the staff at NearlyFreeSpeech.NET. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:33:04 +0000 hourly 1 By: Thomas Tuttle https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2008/11/19/email-forwarding-changes-and-ui-downtime/#comment-8570 Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:33:04 +0000 http://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/?p=66#comment-8570 Glad to hear about this. It sounds like the new solution will be much more in line with your goals in providing email service (that is, forwarding everything you can without getting blacklisted). I’ve heard great things about greylisting, so I hope that works out well for you. (Any chance we can see a list of recently-attempted, greylisted deliveries, so we know that an email will be delivered even if we don’t get it yet?)

The jury is still out on greylisting; we’ll see how it goes. It’s not feasible to provide any sort of per-domain logs for email forwarding, because a great deal of connections are refused without ever finding out who they were for, and those are generally the cases people want to know about. Under some circumstances, that can include our greylisting setup. -jdw

]]> By: Brian "Doc" Shank https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2008/11/19/email-forwarding-changes-and-ui-downtime/#comment-8569 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:31:09 +0000 http://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/?p=66#comment-8569 m looking forward to having ALL mail delivered from legitimate companies even if they have a bad set up, to date important mail from legitimate companies had to use different addresses to insure delivery (it amazing how many companies take offence at the suggestion their mail servers might not be set up right.) Being in business I still need that mail even if they are screwing thing up, thanks for the continued efforts guys, you continue to impress me! <b>I don't want to disappoint, but we are not giving a free pass to email servers with problems. They will still have to meet reasonable standards to get email accepted, the same (or possibly somewhat more strict) than anywhere else. If a message can't be distinguished from spam, it will be refused or quarantined. If you want maximum control over what email gets accepted for you, it will always be the case that you need to operate your own email server and not employ forwarding of any kind. -jdw</b> ]]> I’m looking forward to having ALL mail delivered from legitimate companies even if they have a bad set up, to date important mail from legitimate companies had to use different addresses to insure delivery (it amazing how many companies take offence at the suggestion their mail servers might not be set up right.) Being in business I still need that mail even if they are screwing thing up, thanks for the continued efforts guys, you continue to impress me!

I don’t want to disappoint, but we are not giving a free pass to email servers with problems. They will still have to meet reasonable standards to get email accepted, the same (or possibly somewhat more strict) than anywhere else. If a message can’t be distinguished from spam, it will be refused or quarantined. If you want maximum control over what email gets accepted for you, it will always be the case that you need to operate your own email server and not employ forwarding of any kind. -jdw

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