[174373] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: no more "Send through Gmail" option
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Kulawiec)
Sat Sep 6 06:38:02 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 06:37:52 -0400
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAN2EnhBQFHOKjKB=F-RwvnRbgdU67XUbENvdRVQALHjtzz=9=Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 07:01:41PM -0400, ITechGeek wrote:
> As a replacement, you can use Amazon SES and verify single email addresses
> if you don't have access over the whole domain.
Not if you want people to accept your mail. Thanks to Amazon's policy
of (a) allowing unlimited spam and (b) ignoring all abuse reports [1],
it's long since become a best practice to refuse all SMTP traffic from
amazonses.com, compute-1.amazonaws.com, compute.amazonaws.com and whatever
other subdomains they have/will have associated with that part of their
operation.
---rsk
[1] Which they don't make easy to file. Instead of accepting reports at
abuse@, like every other responsible, professional, properly managed
operation, they force complainers to jump through hoops...in order
to file a complaint...which they studiously ignore.
