If you are good with spam issues and exim configurations HELP is needed, actually:
search ways to know "what is sending" to the world (I have grep all the subjects sent from the server and everything looks correct)
verify the quality of the emailing settings to not be marked as spam (guidelines, etc)
improve the security of the email system and / or the server to avoid possible hacks
improve the dns records to not allow emails from other places that are not elive related
UPDATE: Seems like the Elive server is sending spam and it is starting to be blacklisted, due to this I cannot even announce a release (all emails goes to spam, bad!)
It looks like only elivecd.org is blacklisted by spamhous ..... the forum is OK.
Could be a lot of reasons that that happened...you'd have to look into the logs as to what the server is doing and maybe contact spamhaus as to what they have as a reason.
It might have to do with the email problems that seem to have been there lately when people donated and didn't get a link sent to them.
Maybe double check the donations and the outgoing e-mails whether they're in line with each other.
where you see that? I just tried but doesn't shows like it
There's nothing strange on the exim4 MTA service, but could be another hack that is using the server to send emails (without using the email service)
Mmh, I really think that the server is used to send spam (not emails related to elive), but in fact I cannot know that I don't see a way to see what is sending from it except from the MTA logs on which there's nothing
Which showed me that IP (139.59.157.208) was blacklisted on zen.spamhaus.org but now that I've entered it a second time it isn't anymore.....which actually worries me.
So either it just got removed or that site is kinky.
Gives us an all-green too, so all seems to be allright.
The last announced release of Elive had too much hardbounces, I needed to stop the sending of emails of this release announcement, then I found that the cause was some "bad spam ranking"
Using https://postmaster.google.com/ as a checker for the elive email status (or more like gmail reports), seems like people are marking the elivecd.org emails as spam, apparently a 0.02% rate is considered good, and a few days ago it was reached a 16%, like we can see here:
there's some bans in tiscali.it, MS email services (hotmail, outlook, etc) never worked for elivecd.org, probably yahoo too, etc... a few logs like:
2020-12-26 19:10:07.620 [10597] 1ktE10-0002ku-Bx ** **@shaw.ca F=**@elivecd.org P=**@elivecd.org R=dnslookup_users T=remote_smtp H=smtp.glb.shawcable.net [64.59.136.136]:25 I=[139.59.157.208]36053: SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection: 554 mi08.dcs.int.inet cmsmtp Connection refused. 139.59.157.208 has a poor reputation on Cloudmark Sender Intelligence (CSI). Please visit http://csi.cloudmark.com/reset/xxx.... to request a delisting.
BTW do not mark the email as "this is not spam" and other things, just be neutral... which is needed to know how the email* service manages it by default
yeah exactly, is a very big amount, also, the emails now are only used to give the downloads to the users (not even a release notification), so they are not meant to be marked as spam at all
btw emails from elive had always a good value (30-35 % of emails opened, etc...) by default in email newsletters are less than this
so... the email server has an exim4 server configured, which used mostly for the website
the website sends emails as:
release announcements
download notifications
other similar notifications (download in progress, etc...)
what I meant is that the users can found the "release announcements" emails a little annoying (should be not much), but not the ones with "your download is ready! get elive from this link bla bla"... they are more important and wanted for them, and what I meant is that actually only these last ones are sent (there's no release announcements since the last one, and no other since the previous one, etc... which happens after 2-3 months now?)
not enourmemous, maybe 40 per day, but stills not an issue since its counted in "percentages", so doesn't matter if they are 10 or 10000 (in fact is even better more, since its a more reliable percentage number)
BTW if you see anything to improve and/or wording from the user-experience of those emails (also the delayed download ones, subscription, etc...) just tell me (i have been improving them a bit recently too)
I have some checkers in my computer or the server itself to verify if everything is working correctly, but of course not all is enough
Yeah the email seems to work good, but seems like there's some bad spam ranking and I don't know the reason, it has a few blacklists aparently (like in the logs shown before) and there's also absolutely nothing receive on MS emails (outlook / hotmail / msn / live / mscrap), I assume @TheTechRobo didn't received any too (not even in the Junk folder i mean!)
yeah, I was thinking that maybe the issue is simply the LOW amount of emails, but im not fully convinced that the server is not compromised and the problem is that I cannot know what people are receiving , maybe i can sniff the outgoing port 25 of the server to see if is sending something (without necessarily use the MTA exim server), hum...
BTW note that these reports are not related to MS emails but only from gmail accounts, since its a google service (yeah there's some gmail that hardbounces elive emails, strange!)
you won't, in MS email services it is entirely blacklisted, not even marked as Junk, you will receive nothing until the IP is removed from the blacklist
and on that case, they will be only receive into Junk (not your inbox), hotmail has always been that way for elive emails (and yeah, this is an important issue)
I just tried but doesn't shows like it
I don't see a way to see what is sending from it except from the MTA logs on which there's nothing
