[NCUC E-team] Email Issues - Follow-up

[Gannon, James-1]

So to claim access and signup whoever has access to any of the following addresses needs to do it:

abuse at ncuc.org 
abuse at ncuc1.ncuc.org 
postmaster at ncuc.org 
postmaster at ncuc1.ncuc.org

James Gannon
IGM Manager - Projects & IT Security SME

-----Original Message-----
From: Tapani Tarvainen [mailto:ncuc at tapani.tarvainen.info] 
Sent: 13 April 2016 12:29
To: Gannon, James-1
Cc: e-team at lists.ncuc.org
Subject: Re: Email Issues - Follow-up

Hi James,

First, thank you for contacting M$ and getting the blacklisting removed!

On Apr 13 10:23, Gannon, James-1 (james-1.gannon at novartis.com) wrote:

> Hey can whomever has the requisite details

Hmm, who would that be... ncuc website tells e-team coordinator is Stefania Milan...

> sigh up to the following services to try and increase our IP reputation within the outlook/MS ecosystem:
> 
> JMRS:
> https://postmaster.live.com/snds/JMRP.aspx
> 
> SNDS:
> https://postmaster.live.com/snds/

That would be a good idea.

> Our IP reputation is pretty low due to shared hosting spam 
> unfortunately (Have we considered migrating to a dedicated host?), and 
> also I was told that we are sending mails to addresses at 
> MS/Outlook/Hotmail that are bouncing constantly due to mailbox limits 
> and no longer existing accounts, this lowers our reputation based on 
> their internal algorithms also.

Nonexistent addresses should be pruned away from the list.
As for mailbox limits, there's little we can do, apart from configuring Mailman to drop such sooner - which would have negative consequences as well.

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Tapani Tarvainen