Recently we’ve seen huge floods of spam and more disturbing scams and viruses, that are not yet caught by clam-antivirus, from providers that either market to spammers but also have a few legitimate customers, or providers that are simply hacked to death.  Affected sites include Digital Ocean (lots of “.tech” spam), Amazones (random spam, scams, phishing attempts), mailspike and sendgrid (massive amounts of spam).  Many smaller sites primarily in Eastern Europe.

     The floods from these sites has been so severe I’ve been forced to block part of their address space.  However, this has the side effect of also blocking legitimate clients from their servers.  This is less a problem with Google’s cloud because they have all their legitimate customers properly configured with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC and I can simply block anything from their servers not properly configured.  But with these others most of their customers do not implement any of these protocols.

     I have our servers configured so that we collect all the relevant mail address data before either accepting or blocking the connection and then log that data whether accepted or rejected.  And I have a access list for domains and/or e-mail addresses so we can either accept domains from sites that are otherwise blocked, or reject known spam domains.

     But if we are rejecting legitimate addresses, I do not know until you tell me, and an e-mail or phone call saying I am not getting e-mail from XYZ is not helpful unless you have the sending domain and your e-mail address, even then the best way for me to receive this information and act on it is if you generate a ticket.

     To do this you can go to our website, https://www.eskimo.com/ and under the Support pull-down select Tickets.  If you do not already have an account on the ticket system, create one.  You do not have to be a customer to create tickets, so if you are someone trying legitimately to e-mail a customer here and getting a bounce, you also can use this system to report the issue.  For those address spaces we have to block I can create exceptions for domains or e-mail addresses that are legitimate.  Please note however, I CAN NOT create an except that will allow mail from misconfigured sending sites to get through, in those cases the SENDER will have to fix their configuration though I will be happy to assist in identifying the nature of the misconfiguration.