This was an idea we had back at the beginning, a kind of take off on “whois” to show “Who Uses” easyDNS. Only problem at the time was: we didn’t have any customers yet. So with regular frequency, a lot of high-end, relevant, fun or otherwise interesting websites that use us as a registrar or […]
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We are now checking SPF data for hotmail.com on smtp2
We have found it necessary to turn on SPF checking for the hotmail.com on the smtp2 (backup MX) pool after a massive dictionary attack on a customer domain using forged hotmail.com addresses got us blackholed at hotmail’s servers. This meant we were not able to send over legitimate hotmail.com mail from the smtp2 pool. Now […]
Mail forwarding delays
Due to an overwhelming amount of spam our customers are receiving, there may be longer-than-normal delays in the forwarding of email for those with domains that use easyDNS’ mailservers for email forwarding. This does not mean that you will lose email destined for external email accounts as listed within your mailmaps, rather, there will be […]
Hotmail mail forwarding
It has come to our attention that Hotmail is blocking email being relayed from “smtp2.easydns.com”. This should not affect overall email forwarding performance, as the use of “smtp2.easydns.com” should be one of backup, with “smtp.easydns.com” as a primary MX record for all email handled by easyDNS for our customers. However, we are actively communicating with […]
Earthlink mail forwarding issue resolved.
The previous issue of Earthlink’s mailservers rejecting email that was being forwarded from easyDNS’ mailservers has been resolved. At this time, all our mailservers are able to successfully relay email over to the mailservers within Earthlink’s mailserver pool. However, normal anti-spam filtering on their end does apply. We apologise for the inconvenience previously experienced, and […]
Update on earthlink situation
After speaking with earthlink staff and cross-referencing our logs, it appears this is a situation of easydns (and a few other companies at least) being caught in the crossfire. A massive spam is going around the internet. Probably everybody with a pulse has received at least a half dozen spam emails promoting penny stock scams […]
