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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...

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Picking 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...

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Shaw 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...

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SPAM 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...

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Do 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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