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RE: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider
From: Edwin Pers <EPers () ansencorp com>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 11:19:56 +0000
As an anecdotal aside, approx. 70% of incoming portscanners/rdp bots/ssh bots/etc that hit the firewalls at my sites are coming from AWS. I used to send abuse emails but eventually gave up after receiving nothing beyond "well, aws ip's are dynamic/shared so we can't help you" -----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Rich Kulawiec Sent: Monday, December 4, 2017 2:27 AM To: nanog () nanog org Subject: Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 05:08:33PM +0000, Filip Hruska wrote:
I personally run my own mail server, but route outgoing emails via Amazon SES.
Not a good idea. Amazon's cloud operations are a constant source of spam and abuse (e.g., brute-force SSH attacks), they refuse to accept complaints per RFC 2142, and -- apparently -- they simply don't care to do anything about it. I've had SES blacklisted in my MTA for years (among other preventative measures) and highly recommend to others. ---rsk
Current thread:
- Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Michael S. Singh (Dec 02)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider William Herrin (Dec 02)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Paul Ferguson (Dec 02)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Jean | ddostest.me via NANOG (Dec 03)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Filip Hruska (Dec 03)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Grant Taylor via NANOG (Dec 03)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Royce Williams (Dec 03)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Grant Taylor via NANOG (Dec 03)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Paul Ferguson (Dec 02)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Rich Kulawiec (Dec 03)
- RE: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Edwin Pers (Dec 04)
- RE: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Keith Medcalf (Dec 04)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Rich Kulawiec (Dec 04)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Filip Hruska (Dec 04)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Rich Kulawiec (Dec 04)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Eric Tykwinski (Dec 04)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Rich Kulawiec (Dec 05)
- Novice sysadmins (was: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider) Stephen Satchell (Dec 05)
- Re: Novice sysadmins (was: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider) Harald Koch (Dec 05)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Michael Thomas (Dec 05)
- Re: Novice sysadmins Grant Taylor via NANOG (Dec 05)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider William Herrin (Dec 02)