FidoListens.ca? Who are you?
I care about email security and transparency of email content a lot. I deal with it all the time as a contractor who produces a email newsletters for local retailers. I’m also the guy who teaches end...
View ArticlePicking an Email Address – Don’t use a Free Account from your ISP
I’m about to rant about our local cable internet provider, Shaw’s, mediocre email. Their hit-and-miss SPAM filters decided to block an email newsletter that I manage for a local retailer. I hate it...
View ArticleShaw email SPAM filters for shaw.ca addresses are mediocre
Shaw SPAM filter catches a lot of false positives. I have mentioned my disdain for Shaw’s email at least once on this blog. Today, I’ll write a bit on Shaw’s mediocre spam filter. We manage a fully...
View ArticleSPAM Registrations to a Blog?
This blog started getting hundreds of automated new user registrations per day, starting a few days ago. I’m not entirely sure what the point of that would be, nor, do I have any idea why now, after...
View ArticleDo not use xinetd to create an obscure port for SMTP
Years ago I created a simple xinetd rule to use a custom port for SMTP. I set this up years ago when my local ISP started to block outbound SMTP connections on port 25 as an anti-spam measure. I had...
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