Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server

Re:Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server by zie on Saturday June 19, 2021 @01:45PM (#27562579)

I don't run Maddy, but I do run email for an organization of a few thousand people. It happens on occasion from various providers, The larger organizations(MS,Google,etc) will spam your logs SMTP errors with a URL. You visit the URL and do whatever actions they want that particular day and life goes on. It's not hard, but it is a bit annoying sometimes.

Generally if you have a static IP and you don't go being all stupid with spam, it's not THAT difficult, but you do have to jump a few hoops and then occasionally play wackamole with their spam prevention junk for the month.

It seems to come in waves, like email will be fine for a few months and then 1 provider after another will be all upset about gosh knows what that day and you have to visit URL's and push a few buttons.

I've been to lazy to track it, and the various reasons for that particular day, but this has been my experience. A few times a year you have to go babysit SMTP so email can be delivered again.

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Re:Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server by atatatat on Sunday June 20, 2021 @02:04AM (#27567553)

So MS requires people with custom domains to run logging on their (possibly hosted and managed [by Google]) email server...and monitor it?

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Re:Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server by zie on Sunday June 20, 2021 @02:47PM (#27572833)

Not just MS, they pretty much all dump SMTP errors with URL's telling you about the SMTP error they gave you. Some are really awesome when you visit the URL, they say oh, do X and then you are good. Others say we just don't like you at the moment, with basically no detail... and then you get the full burden of figuring out why they didn't like you and trying again.

We host and manage the SMTP server(s) ourselves(We currently run Postfix). If you outsource your email to Google, etc, then they have to babysit the email logs for URL's, not you.

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Re:Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server by atatatat on Monday June 21, 2021 @10:36AM (#27579597)

But...are they, for my domain?

Do they care? How would I know? =(

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Re:Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server by zie on Monday June 21, 2021 @08:13PM (#27586289)

Does your email get delivered? If it does, then they do monitor their logs.

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