MTA reputation

You could use gmail or ymail for critical email, while your provider tries to sort out the problem.

How about the paranoid viewpoint - is Cisco possibly owned by Google? If so would they be trying to shut down all email servers except Gmail? How is that for paranoid!

(ducking!)

I don't actually think that is true, but thought it would be fun to speculate outside the box...

Like war games...what might happen if...

John ;-#)#

Thanks, I am aware of that. This is a recurring problem and it appears the hosting provider is not very interested in sorting this out. I am pushing back, but I'm not sure they will do anything other than moving me to a dif ferent server.

The real problem is that Cisco is providing this service to their customers without providing a means of access for those affected. I guess it's an i ssue of big guys ignoring the little guys. Maybe I'll contact a state repr esentative so see if they are aware of the problem. But likely it will end up having the same effect as complaining about your name being on a no-fly list.

I'd like to get Charlie off the MTA list.

Fastmail is highly recommended to me by colleagues who are in that game.

Building reputation to send mail is expensive. Pay someone who already has it.

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It's not practical... is it? Is this mail hosting as in all the email for an entire domain? Fastmail charges per email account. That gets steep ver y quickly.

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for an entire domain? Fastmail charges per email account. That gets steep very quickly.

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It's not just about aliases. I have several email accounts personally to h andle important things, not so important things and the several email lists I'm on. I only download the categories I am interested in at a given time . Then there are others who have email addresses at my company. Then ther e are the several businesses I host for friends. There are probably 50 dif ferent email accounts, even if I cut out the deadwood it's probably still a t least 20.

Email would seem to be a fairly trivial portion of domain hosting. I got a response from Cisco and they claim "This IP was reported by our sensor net work via telemetry." about 23 hours ago. No details are available. I wond er how significant the "spam" was.

Unlike having your IP blacklisted this Cisco reporting thing seems to have no way to get off other than to hope the spam stops and waiting up to "two weeks".

My hosting provider seems to have the attitude that this is inevitable and they can do nothing about it. They do have multiple servers and will be mo ving me over the weekend to one that currently has a "good" reputation with Cisco. Meanwhile I am still pressing Cisco to do something.