Incredible but true, Microsoft has masked a campaign against the SPAM to force Internet providers and companies with significant e-mail management to buy their "certification" as "sender" Sure, what they call the "IP Reputation" .
After weeks of research we have identified and tested the latest Microsoft business on the Web: forced to pay to the companies that manage large quantities of mail, which do not have to be SPAM, such as Internet providers, Journals, Mailing Lists , private agencies with a high volume of participants and / or requests for information, etc.
The track starts when a company is a large volume of emails that come from Hotmail or Yahoo accounts (also involved in the story). In answering these emails, at first nothing happens, the answers are sent successfully, although after a few days, the response messages begin to arrive in error.
At the first checks and following the instructions that come with their own responses from Hotmail, the next step is to check that (magically) the IP or domain of the target company is enlisted in what they call a "list reputation "(IP Reputation).
After stay white and not knowing where to start are set in motion the first steps of solution:
- Check that no illegal entry or hole on servers or websites from which Hacking fans are sending spam.
- Check the IP of our Internet connection, will not be that the previous user was a fan of SPAM.
- Check the mail server's IP ... BINGO.
Again sweet potato pulp, the mail server's IP is blocked.
This can be seen in countless websites pseudo-service providers protection from SPAM that have signed up to the car to sell various products and solutions based on fear of spam, phishing, etc.. Really worthy followers of Mr. Bush (the son).
Some of these directions can be found at:
http://spamlinks.net/filter-dnsbl-lookup.htm
While specific recommendations:
ReputationAuthority
http://www.reputationauthority.org/
Barracuda
http://www.barracudacentral.org/lookups/ip-reputation
SendMail
http://www.sendmail.com/sm/resources/tools/ip_reputation/
Precisely through the latter continuing the track.
After checking the IP blocking, we get in touch with the company calling its central UK, we call by a technician of the Department of Systems and kindly pass us with Matt Sutton, who, after asking in the first place if we are customers of them, and tell us the problem is to reply in email.
Certainly it does.
We answered another company, Kin Fung (no kidding) who signs as a Senior Sales Engineer Solution Architect & Messaging Western Europe (almost nothing, to not take it seriously), who very kindly tells us that has not SendMail who has been discharged but that the part of the IP Reputation Service Alliance addresses discharged by some other providers in the same appear in all the websites of these affiliates, at least has the delicacy to indicate that it has CommTouch was the company who has released the IP on the Net
That if, at the end of email lends itself nicely to help us find the problem that may have on our server and failing that offer a range of services to prevent future occurrences and to provide a warning system in that case.
We kindly declined his offer, that if, within 20 minutes the IP Reputation mail server down from 96% to 0% (which is good people).
After locating the company CommTouch, we get in touch with them and because of the tic that has begun to appear in the left eye (the neurons have their limit), the email of "discharge" that force us to send them to low "his "list contains expressions like" legal action ".
20 minutes later the IP withdrawal, this time no response or offer email services (that hurts).
The fact is that 12 hours after checking the IP, all sites and for having gotten that offer verification system "reputation" of the nose (lookup) to make sure that the IP was not any, certainly , is nowhere.
But Microsoft does not of happy endings, the emails keep coming back with error, we continue to learn that can not be happening. After that we look at a link to the friends from Hotmail refer in case you're not a user, and you're an Internet Service Provider:
http://postmaster.live.com
Then let's do this. Upon entering, and after reading a tearful statement of the important effort that Microsoft is making to prevent spam to its users, we headed to a link that states:
"Solutions for Internet Service Providers"
hence the "E-Service Manager" and "Solutions for senders ... until we find the "Sender ID" for authentication and reputation of "senders" and then ... surprise: we are at the Microsoft Web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/senderid
where we sell a part of this new service can also visit Mircosfot and distributors through which we recruit ... that happened to be the same selfless service offering registered IP naughty children, you lock it and remove you from there when you ask them to send you a proof of course you sent SPAM. Something logical in any country or banana republic that boasts.
In conclusion and understanding that does not get along multiple constraints (check the SSL certificates that Internet Explorer crashes when not issued by one of its partners), we found the only valid solution for any company that appreciates its independence:
- Hiring a new IP for the mail server.
- Launch a campaign to inform customers, users and contacts several indicating that does not respond or attend to any request that arrives from Hotmail or Yahoo.
This course not ruin the friend "Gates" but at least we will not waste more time with his gangster behavior.
Only that point you are at your disposal to help them will expand and as accurate (and this in our hand on this), you can send an email or a ticket to our support department:
http://soporte.ikaroo.es
(not answered Hotmail or Yahoo address).
A greeting.
Central [iKaroo.es]
