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Hydrogenaudio Forum => Validated News => Topic started by: kode54 on 2020-10-18 02:05:47

Poll
Question: Is your Hotmail or Live or Outlook mail working? Please only vote if you are using these services.
Option 1: Yes, it is working. I can receive password recovery notices and any optional topic subscriptions. votes: 3
Option 2: No, it is not working. votes: 4
Title: Please stop using Hotmail and Outlook email addresses
Post by: kode54 on 2020-10-18 02:05:47
If you are using a Hotmail or Outlook email address, please change it now, as Microsoft is rejecting all email from our service outright. There is no way to bypass this, other than paying for a different mail silo to send our infrequent messages.
Title: Re: Please stop using Hotmail and Outlook email addresses
Post by: A_Man_Eating_Duck on 2020-10-18 04:59:24
Does the forgot your password reset use a different email service?

I just tested it and received the "new password for Hydrogenaudio forums" email on my hotmail address.
Title: Re: Please stop using Hotmail and Outlook email addresses
Post by: kode54 on 2020-10-19 02:00:28
Huh. Maybe it's for specific accounts. Hotmail and Outlook regularly fill up my blocked messages list. Maybe they're lying to the sender?
Title: Re: Please stop using Hotmail and Outlook email addresses
Post by: A_Man_Eating_Duck on 2020-10-19 03:42:25
Maybe a poll could be set up to try and see how wide spread the issue is?
Title: Re: Please stop using Hotmail and Outlook email addresses
Post by: kode54 on 2020-10-19 04:32:40
Perhaps. I'll add a poll.

Users I've seen allegedly blocked, I don't know if they actually receive anything. Including: @jazzthieve
Title: Re: Please stop using Hotmail and Outlook email addresses
Post by: A_Man_Eating_Duck on 2020-10-19 18:20:22
I think I'm seeing something odd. While I get the password reset emails I don't seem to get emails for any updates to topics. I'm pretty sure i have my notification settings set correctly in my profile. I have this topic on notify and i didn't get anything when you replied.

Are you able to check on your side if my email is showing up as blocked for these notification emails.
Title: Re: Please stop using Hotmail and Outlook email addresses
Post by: Vicas on 2020-10-19 18:44:45
Works partially for me. Today just to test this I subscribed to few topics to notify me and only got mail from one topic and it was in junk folder. (Outlook)
Title: Re: Please stop using Hotmail and Outlook email addresses
Post by: amarin on 2020-10-19 22:08:15
I could not register with hotmail... I mean i could, but confirmation  mail was not comming.
Title: Re: Please stop using Hotmail and Outlook email addresses
Post by: Big_Berny on 2020-10-21 10:24:42
https://www.mail-tester.com might be helpful to find why they are rejected?

Edit: Tested the first confirmation email and these are the results: https://www.mail-tester.com/test-7um003nb7
Looks like the IP is listed on: https://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml


Title: Re: Please stop using Hotmail and Outlook email addresses
Post by: spoon on 2020-10-21 11:24:16
https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=mx%3ahydrogenaud.io&run=toolpage

You need to setup DMARC in the DNS, also ensure SPF and DKIM are active and validate (you can send test emails to certain checking sites).

Many servers will drop anything with does not have those now.
Title: Re: Please stop using Hotmail and Outlook email addresses
Post by: kode54 on 2020-10-21 23:58:34
I can't do any of that without access to the DNS records. And I thought DMARC and SPF and DKIM were already set up. I'd do it on the naked domain if it didn't interfere with anything, but it's supposed to me enabled on the "sg" subdomain now. And I have no control over the IP address, unless someone wants to start paying for SendGrid to give a dedicated IP address. Or thinks that sending mail directly from the Hydrogen Audio server will work any better.
Title: Re: Please stop using Hotmail and Outlook email addresses
Post by: spoon on 2020-10-31 21:44:19
>Or thinks that sending mail directly from the Hydrogen Audio server will work any better.

Yes potentially, it is worth a try, as time goes on more and more will block sites which do not comply with best practices, because it is an easy fix to block much spam.
Title: Re: Please stop using Hotmail and Outlook email addresses
Post by: kode54 on 2020-11-01 00:09:21
Fine, I'll reconfigure Postfix to send mail directly. I have no control over DMARC or any of that other crap, so we won't be using any of it. Or you could, you know, get someone who actually has DNS control to configure it.
Title: Re: Please stop using Hotmail and Outlook email addresses
Post by: NateHigs on 2020-11-01 08:58:46
Imagine asking people to stop using Hotmail or Outlook - the ridiculousness of it.
Title: Re: Please stop using Hotmail and Outlook email addresses
Post by: kode54 on 2020-11-01 22:29:44
Imagine the ridiculousness of needing to use this forum.
Title: Re: Please stop using Hotmail and Outlook email addresses
Post by: Lebon14 on 2020-11-03 13:31:37
I received a topic subscription to my hotmail address... but it ended up in the spam folder.
I can try changing my password. A refresh can't hurt.
Title: Re: Please stop using Hotmail and Outlook email addresses
Post by: kode54 on 2020-11-04 22:56:01
Requesting a password recovery does not force a password change. You actually have to utilize the linked form to do that. And I think they do expire after a while.
Title: Re: Please stop using Hotmail and Outlook email addresses
Post by: spoon on 2020-11-15 11:46:13
Visit here:  

https://dkimvalidator.com/

and send a message from hy.io to the unique generated address, then click view results, anything below 0 is likely to pass all providers.

Here is an example of dBpoweramp mail (rdns working, spf, dkim):

SpamAssassin Score: -0.1
Message is NOT marked as spam
Points breakdown:
-0.0 SPF_HELO_PASS          SPF: HELO matches SPF record
-0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU          Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from
                            author's domain
 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED            Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily
                            valid
-0.1 DKIM_VALID             Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature
 0.0 TVD_SPACE_RATIO        No description available.
Title: Re: Please stop using Hotmail and Outlook email addresses
Post by: kode54 on 2020-11-15 23:05:33
And I can't do anything about domain settings. I guess Peter can deal with this.
Title: Re: Please stop using Hotmail and Outlook email addresses
Post by: kode54 on 2020-11-16 01:32:55
SpamAssassin Score: 2.597
Message is NOT marked as spam
Points breakdown:
 2.6 RCVD_IN_SBL            RBL: Received via a relay in Spamhaus SBL
                            [167.89.100.227 listed in zen.spamhaus.org]
-0.0 RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2      RBL: Average reputation (+2)
                            [167.89.100.227 listed in wl.mailspike.net]
 0.0 SPF_HELO_NONE          SPF: HELO does not publish an SPF Record
-0.1 DKIM_VALID             Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature
 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED            Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily
                            valid
 0.0 UNPARSEABLE_RELAY      Informational: message has unparseable relay
                            lines

I guess I can try disabling SendGrid, but I can't configure the domain to DKIM/SPF/whatever. So, walk Peter through it I guess. The server is currently using postfix to forward, so I guess reconfig should go there.
Title: Re: Please stop using Hotmail and Outlook email addresses
Post by: spoon on 2020-11-16 15:31:42
It might be worth considering updating the server from CentOS7 to 8 at the same time, CentOS7 has now gone into only maintenance update cycle now.
Title: Re: Please stop using Hotmail and Outlook email addresses
Post by: Melchior on 2020-12-16 21:13:36
my email address has always got my emails from here no problem...
but then I noticed this [notice]
Quote
If you are using a Hotmail or Outlook email address, please change it now, as Microsoft is rejecting all email from our service outright.
I noticed that that one of the topics I am subscribed to had gotten a reply  on the 14th of December two days ago...
and I had not received an email notification I think...

could one of the admins please look into this...
I will be on the look out for a reply email

ps: I also would like to note I do not have a Hotmail or Outlook account/email address.
ps2: btw I am here for the foobar2000  hosted forums..
Title: Re: Please stop using Hotmail and Outlook email addresses
Post by: Octocontrabass on 2020-12-17 02:28:01
It might be worth considering updating the server from CentOS7 to 8 at the same time, CentOS7 has now gone into only maintenance update cycle now.
You may want to reconsider: CentOS 8 won't have any maintenance updates at all (https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product).
Title: Re: Please stop using Hotmail and Outlook email addresses
Post by: kode54 on 2020-12-18 10:13:55
We already know this now.
Title: Re: Please stop using Hotmail and Outlook email addresses
Post by: A_Man_Eating_Duck on 2021-04-02 00:52:56
just wondering if this was resolved in the end?

I seem to be getting topic reply emails for all the threads i have posted in when before it was sporadic.
Title: Re: Please stop using Hotmail and Outlook email addresses
Post by: kode54 on 2021-04-02 02:13:38
Seems to have cooled down now.