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Small Mailserver Best Current Practices

Phil Pennock is an email administrator, software engineer and one of the maintainers of the open source Exim MTA (mail transfer agent; aka mail server) and after a recent discussion on the Mailop list, he put together a good list of considerations/best practices for administrators of small mail servers wanting to maximize their chances of being able to send email messages successfully to us…
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Great work, MAAWG!

On March 10th, the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG) published a new version of the Senders BCP (Best Common Practices) document -- a solid overview and set of recommendations on how to not be a spammer. They're not particularly rough or tough…

Blocking list BCP and Dead DNSBLs

Over on DNSBL Resource, I posted a quick rant and link to the DNSBL best practice draft document . This BCP ought to be required reading for any current or future blacklist operator.