[MiQP-Mail] Yahoo & AOL are bouncing confirmation e-mails

[Mike Tindor / AA8IA]

There are probably things that you can do to resolve that.

1.   Enable DKIM and SPF in the cPanel interface (Mail --> Authentication)
for the miqp.org domain
2.   Make sure the FROM address of the emails being sent by the web
applications are within the @miqp.org domain

Currently the MIQP.ORG domain has no email authentication set up

  dig miqp.org txt
  ;miqp.org.                      IN      TXT

dig default._domainkey.miqp.org
  ;default._domainkey.miqp.org.   IN      TXT

And one would expect something _similar_ to the following with DKIM / SPF
enabled:

dig aa8ia.org txt
  aa8ia.org.              11278   IN      TXT     "v=spf1 +a +mx
+ip4:209.240.4.1 ~all"

dig default._domainkey.aa8ia.org txt
  default._domainkey.aa8ia.org. 14400 IN  TXT     "v=DKIM1\; k=rsa\;
p=MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQCwuGNT5uO+n+2aSmD9jZvEnlWVOVLb2FDHsO0A6OaMW4NffgxyCGNo0JXe21lX5VRSZArqQIDDKN54fUJTKOVbC8CntHL2DzX4jDoIIFZcHPdWl2OnRJodZFc3jsEpyyb3nw4pNyoX/v6XOcw3SDvWyJPvpn7vNqvAP4JOuFiR6QIDAQAB\;"

So, please consider enabling those email authentication mechanisms.   No
email domain should be without DKIM / SPF nowadays.    The default values
that cPanel sets up when you enable those features should be fine, and
nothing should look exactly like my examples above.


Mike / AA8IA


On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 1:16 PM, David Pruett <k8cc at comcast.net> wrote:

> MiQPers:
>
> When a log is submitted to the MiQP Log Submittal web page,  it sends an
> e-mail back to the submitter confirming that the log was received OK and
> accepted.  Unfortunately, for those of you with e-mail accounts at Yahoo or
> AOL, your confirmation e-mails are being rejected by your e-mail hosts.  In
> the case of Yahoo, when your confirmation is rejected, here is an example
> of what we receive back:
>
> SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: host
> mta5.am0.yahoodns.net [98.138.112.37]:
> 554 5.7.9 Message not accepted for policy reasons.
>
> Apparently, Yahoo doesn't think miqp.org is real, and that we're trying
> to send spam to you.  We're also seeing this same problem with e-mails
> going to AOL addresses.
>
> Since there's nothing we can do about this (and likely, nothing you can do
> either), this note is simply to let you know about the problem.  When you
> submitted your log, the web page shows that it has been accepted and how it
> was rough-scored by the web page.  If you don't receive a confirmation
> e-mail after that, just go to either of the "logs received" pages on the
> web site and you should be able to see your entry:
>
> http://www.miqp.org/logsReceivedMiQP2015.php
>
> or
>
> http://www.miqp.org/logsReceivedMiQP2015withScore.php
>
> Or just go to the "Contents" section on the MiQP home page at
> http://www.miqp.org and select either the "2015 Logs Received" or "2015
> Logs Received with Scores" link.
>
> We hope this information is helpful.
>
> 73,
> MiQP Organizing Committee
>
>
>
>
>
>
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