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Suresh Ramasubramanian
ops.lists at gmail.com
Wed Nov 4 09:57:42 CET 2015
First - I have a great amount of respect for Nat - he was a colleague at IBM (where he used to be for years) before he left to join Mimecast. That said - I am going to ask him to have someone investigate any email you have sent mime cast, and why it bounced - or whether there is an unfiltered alias you can resend your email to. > On 04-Nov-2015, at 1:59 PM, andre at ox.co.za wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 13:48:51 +0530 > Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists at gmail.com> wrote: >> Mimecast’s chief scientist is Nathaniel Borenstein - who originally >> wrote the MIME spec. >> They are legit. I am not sure what is going on here. >> > thank you for the reference Mr Ramasubramanian, would you do me the > kind favor of asking them: > why they are blocking @188.40.114.80 - which is also the ip used to > send emails to this list. - and then maybe tell us, in public what is > going on? > > If they are not extorting money, then I surely must have abused them or > their users? Or their system is broken, or what? > > but i think that they may not bee that legit? or they have changed their > corporate goals? or there are new management, or something? > > Just from what you can see here: > https://community.mimecast.com/docs/DOC-1369#554 > > then they are bouncing with 554 to support@ > > that is clearly not legit. > > or it is a serious flaw/broken system? > > they could bounce of course any way they like, but bouncing > with something that is going to return is basically saying only one > thing - there is no way to communicate with them, as when I > do that is simply added to their block... > > that is not cool, nice, decent or even fair bahavior? > > andre > >>> On 04-Nov-2015, at 1:14 PM, andre at ox.co.za wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Has anyone of you had much/any dealings with this crowd: >>> Mimecast.com ? >>> >>> Less than 1% of our email volume exchanges with them, and yesterday >>> after complaining about abuse/UBE from them and receiving no >>> response, escalated to @telstra and then all of a sudden they are >>> returning all email in a loop: >>> >>> support at mimecast.com >>> host service-alpha-inbound-b.mimecast.com [91.220.42.231] >>> SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: >>> 554 Email rejected due to security policies - >>> https://community.mimecast.com/docs/DOC-1369#554 >>> >>> Then, when I email them from a different server, it goes through the >>> first time and viola, the second email, same block, on the "new" >>> server" >>> >>> From their website: They provide email filtering services, this >>> feels like they are extorting money from me, which I will not pay >>> of course. >>> >>> But, have any of you had any similar experiences? As they are >>> providing this type of "service" to some of our @gov departments >>> as well as other large companies, I will have user blowback - what >>> do I tell my users? We are blocked because we dared complaining? >>> or we are blocked because we do not pay? >>> >>> any advice will be appreciated, obviously this type of behavior >>> breaks email and the larger the "protectors" become, the more >>> control they have... >>> >>> tia >>> >>> andre >>> >>> >> > >
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