The featured article mentions having already checked 0, 2, and 3 using mail-tester.com and Port25. So of the remainder ("Not being an open relay for any amount of time while setting up", "SMTP server host name", and "Retry delay not less than 1 hour."), which is most likely?
At first, Google would filter out my mails, but once I set up SPF and DKIM records, they became much more friendly.
The featured article mentions having set up not only SPF and DKIM but also DMARC, reverse DNS, and checking against blacklists. Which step was missed? Or how many months did it take for Gmail to become more friendly?
Haven't tried outlook.com, but hotmail.com (also owned by M$) works fine.
Outlook.com and Hotmail.com are two domains owned by the same service.
this server was configured perfectly: not on any blacklists, reverse DNS set up, SPF, DKIM and DMARC policies in place, etcetera. (Side note: mail-tester.com and Port25 are great for checking your setup.)
I was thinking I could maybe put together a frankenbox from other parts I had lying around, well I had a machine from 2006. But that had VGA and DVI outputs, my current monitor only has HDMI and DP.
DVI-D and HDMI are the same signals in a different connector. Monoprice has cheap DVI-D to HDMI cables to let you use the 2006 PC with the current monitor.
If my machine has six users and each of them has group read/execute access to the directory/opt/share/bin,/usr/share/bin or/var/whatever: it does not matter who is installing it as all of them can use it.
But only root has write access to/opt and/usr. This means you still need to elevate to install something that all of them can use.
Also you seem to have missed the last 30 years: storage is cheap now.
On each Windows laptop smaller than 13 inches that I've investigated, there has been something important that did not "just work" after installation of a Linux distribution, such as the keyboard (for detachables), Wi-Fi, or suspend. There used to be good 10" Linux laptops, such as the Dell Inspiron mini 1012 that I have, but they're discontinued, and I wonder what I'll be able to use to replace mine.
When I exclude Windows and Chrome OS, I'm presented with options that are used (and thus unwarranted), expensive, or used and expensive.
10?
If you're making a distinction between Windows 7 and 8 on the one hand and Windows 10 on the other hand, let me take this opportunity to remind you that Microsoft has recently made the mistake of pushing the upgrade from Windows 7 and 8 to Windows 10 as an automatically selected update and may end up making this mistake again.
Seriously, you pay for texting by the message? Is that even legal these days?
Yes. If you're in the United States, and your cellular service costs less than about $500 per year, you probably pay per outgoing message and per incoming message. This is especially common on pay-as-you-go carriers such as Virgin.
As Anonymous Coward suggested, you could pester BBC Worldwide to create a subscription service to watch BBC-owned programmes and then tell us what form letter you get.
The Kindle format (.azw) is proprietary because major publishers of non-free books are unwilling to publish in a free format. But Kindle e-readers also accept.mobi, which is free, and Kindle format is just a digital restrictions management wrapper around.mobi.
I find that technical documents on web sites are far and away the most usable solution for reference materials, followed by books, followed by the Kindle.
What's the best format for reference materials while you're not connected to the Internet, such as if you are working while riding a bus, train, or airplane?
You linked to a list of mostly Chromebooks. A Chromebook has two modes: non-developer mode and developer mode. In non-developer mode, the only app it can run is Google Chrome, which means I would have to rewrite all my programs from scratch in JavaScript as Chrome apps before I can run them. In developer mode, a Chromebook begs you to erase its hard drive every time you turn it on, with a message to the effect "OS verification is turned off. Press Space to perform a factory reset." Others have run into the same problem: "The user I lent it to pressed the spacebar at the scary message prompt and erased my entire Chomebook" [sic].
Narrow to "Linux" (by which I think they mean X11/GNU/Linux) and there are only six results, mostly either used (and therefore out of warranty) or over $500 (when they were $300 two years ago).
In this sense, APK is Alexander P. Kowalski, the self-proclaimed "Lord of Hosts" who advocates using /etc/hosts as the workhorse of web content blocking for security and efficiency. He wrote a proprietary hosts file aggregator application for Windows called APK Hosts File Engine, and he likes to remind us that hosts-based blocking is faster than browser extensions because it runs in kernel mode and that MalwareBytes recommends it. He has his own peculiar style of writing involving lots of boldface type, use of & instead of "and", and other quirks, and posts copypasta ads for APK Hosts File Engine on Slashdot as Anonymous Coward.
But I don't see the similarity between APK's writing and Narcocide's.
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How can the transmitter securely determine in which country it is being operated?
The XYZ domain is a complete wasteland.
Then why is Google's parent company in the wasteland?
new garbage TLDs, including .xyz [...] Neither I, nor any of my users, appear to have gotten a legitimate email from any other these domains.
Let me guess: neither you nor your users owns any shares of Google's parent company Alphabet Inc., whose web site is https://abc.xyz/ .
The OP may want to look at some tools that will query the MX record and then test the mail server for various common pitfalls.
Do "mail-tester.com and Port25", mentioned in the featured article, have known problems?
Simple way to boost your reputation is to simply configure a smarthost to send outgoing mail securely.
That boosts the smarthost's reputation, not yours, unless I'm missing something fundamental.
The featured article mentions having already checked 0, 2, and 3 using mail-tester.com and Port25. So of the remainder ("Not being an open relay for any amount of time while setting up", "SMTP server host name", and "Retry delay not less than 1 hour."), which is most likely?
At first, Google would filter out my mails, but once I set up SPF and DKIM records, they became much more friendly.
The featured article mentions having set up not only SPF and DKIM but also DMARC, reverse DNS, and checking against blacklists. Which step was missed? Or how many months did it take for Gmail to become more friendly?
Haven't tried outlook.com, but hotmail.com (also owned by M$) works fine.
Outlook.com and Hotmail.com are two domains owned by the same service.
Anonymous Coward wrote:
your issue is likely that you havent set up your dns security records and spf correctly
The featured article mentions already having set up "SPF, DKIM and DMARC". To which "dns security records" do you refer?
in combination with sending from an ip address that doesnt have an acceptable ptr record, i.e. it resolves to a home user adsl or cable pool.
The featured article mentions this: "not on any blacklists, reverse DNS set up".
Have you tried RTFA?
Which public set of figures should I be using instead of VGChartz the next time this is asked?
I was thinking I could maybe put together a frankenbox from other parts I had lying around, well I had a machine from 2006. But that had VGA and DVI outputs, my current monitor only has HDMI and DP.
DVI-D and HDMI are the same signals in a different connector. Monoprice has cheap DVI-D to HDMI cables to let you use the 2006 PC with the current monitor.
If my machine has six users and each of them has group read/execute access to the directory /opt/share/bin, /usr/share/bin or /var/whatever: it does not matter who is installing it as all of them can use it.
But only root has write access to /opt and /usr. This means you still need to elevate to install something that all of them can use.
Also you seem to have missed the last 30 years: storage is cheap now.
This is true of HDDs but not SSDs.
On each Windows laptop smaller than 13 inches that I've investigated, there has been something important that did not "just work" after installation of a Linux distribution, such as the keyboard (for detachables), Wi-Fi, or suspend. There used to be good 10" Linux laptops, such as the Dell Inspiron mini 1012 that I have, but they're discontinued, and I wonder what I'll be able to use to replace mine.
Because of incompatibility with hardware.
Who the fuck cares about drive space these days????
Users of big Steam games on a PC with a relatively small SSD, for one.
If your machine has six users, do you want six copies of each program and its associated data taking up space on your drive?
Are you unable to select anything but Windows
When I exclude Windows and Chrome OS, I'm presented with options that are used (and thus unwarranted), expensive, or used and expensive.
10?
If you're making a distinction between Windows 7 and 8 on the one hand and Windows 10 on the other hand, let me take this opportunity to remind you that Microsoft has recently made the mistake of pushing the upgrade from Windows 7 and 8 to Windows 10 as an automatically selected update and may end up making this mistake again.
Did you really buy your last laptop in a Staples or Best Buy? Try the internet sometime, it's pretty cool what you can find.
If only I could feel the keyboard and look at the screen through the Internet, that'd be even cooler.
Actually most of them are Windows machines.
I thought we were already excluding those with checkboxes because "Microsoft Now Uses Windows 10's Start Menu To Display Ads".
Seriously, you pay for texting by the message? Is that even legal these days?
Yes. If you're in the United States, and your cellular service costs less than about $500 per year, you probably pay per outgoing message and per incoming message. This is especially common on pay-as-you-go carriers such as Virgin.
As Anonymous Coward suggested, you could pester BBC Worldwide to create a subscription service to watch BBC-owned programmes and then tell us what form letter you get.
The Kindle format (.azw) is proprietary because major publishers of non-free books are unwilling to publish in a free format. But Kindle e-readers also accept .mobi, which is free, and Kindle format is just a digital restrictions management wrapper around .mobi.
I find that technical documents on web sites are far and away the most usable solution for reference materials, followed by books, followed by the Kindle.
What's the best format for reference materials while you're not connected to the Internet, such as if you are working while riding a bus, train, or airplane?
You linked to a list of mostly Chromebooks. A Chromebook has two modes: non-developer mode and developer mode. In non-developer mode, the only app it can run is Google Chrome, which means I would have to rewrite all my programs from scratch in JavaScript as Chrome apps before I can run them. In developer mode, a Chromebook begs you to erase its hard drive every time you turn it on, with a message to the effect "OS verification is turned off. Press Space to perform a factory reset." Others have run into the same problem: "The user I lent it to pressed the spacebar at the scary message prompt and erased my entire Chomebook" [sic].
Narrow to "Linux" (by which I think they mean X11/GNU/Linux) and there are only six results, mostly either used (and therefore out of warranty) or over $500 (when they were $300 two years ago).
In this sense, APK is Alexander P. Kowalski, the self-proclaimed "Lord of Hosts" who advocates using /etc/hosts as the workhorse of web content blocking for security and efficiency. He wrote a proprietary hosts file aggregator application for Windows called APK Hosts File Engine, and he likes to remind us that hosts-based blocking is faster than browser extensions because it runs in kernel mode and that MalwareBytes recommends it. He has his own peculiar style of writing involving lots of boldface type, use of & instead of "and", and other quirks, and posts copypasta ads for APK Hosts File Engine on Slashdot as Anonymous Coward.
But I don't see the similarity between APK's writing and Narcocide's.