New Server Comments/Bugs

[admin]

What do you mean "no luck"? Do you mean the message is showing in the outbox? If that is correct, it means the recipient did not read it yet. If the recipient has a microsoft email (msn, outlook, live, bellsouth) then it (the email saying "hey, you have a PM in your box") is being blocked temporarily while the new server is verified. Otherwise, you could try to send an email to the same person. If it fails, I will see the returned mail notification and try to unblock whatever is happening.

[admin]

Update on blocked emails: Outlook, Msn, live, hotmail addresses are blocked. Application has been made to unblock this server from sending to those addresses. This will affect digests and notices and comm from other users.

Bellsouth sbcglobal (ATT) is blocked. Application is being made today to remove the block.

[admin]

Some of the blocks are being removed but some emails for digests are being returned. AT&T and Microsoft have been asked to remove the blocks. The blocks would be internal to these companies from some previous website. This site/IP is not on any lists for spam worldwide. If anyone wants the blocked mail please PM here as they are all sitting in a mailbox getting dusty.

[admin]

ATT still blocking sbcglobal, att and other related domains. I've sent maybe 50 emails trying to unblock. This is an internal company block, nothing to do with spam or any blacklist. If you have ATT emails being blocked feel free to send your own request to abuse_rbl@abuse-att.net and ask them to get a legitimate block removal process in place for legitimate internet sites. [mumble on]No wonder they went bankrupt a few years ago[mumble off]

Finally, a "reply" after two days of relentless emailing.

26/01/2018 10:01
Thank you for contacting the AT&T Postmaster Staff.

We investigate every block report and removal request we
receive and take the appropriate action, of which you will
be notified. It is never the intention of the AT&T
Postmaster staff to block legitimate mail. It is a rare
but unfortunate occurrence that legitimate correspondence
is blocked as a result of careful yet vigorous anti-spam
and abuse countermeasures. We would like to rectify your
mail delivery issue as soon as possible with your help. By
emailing this address you have already taken the first
step in resolving this issue.

When the AT&T Postmaster staff receives a request with the
needed information requests are evaluated. If granted, the
block will be removed within 24 to 48 hours. There are
situations when mail interruptions or blocks are in place
outside the AT&T domain. In these cases, we will attempt
to make contact with the party initiating the block and
seek a resolution. If there is no change after 48 hours
please include the current and complete error message that
you are receiving in your follow up email to
<abuse_rbl@abuse-att.net>.

For more information about email best practices and mail
delivery issues visit:

https://www.att.com/esupport/postmaster/

We reserve the right to deny or turn down a request if our
research shows the requested IP(s) being a violator of
SPAM or abuse policies currently, or in the past.

We at AT&T thank you for your assistance in reporting this
matter and appreciate your patience while we investigate
this issue.

AT&T Postmaster Staff

[admin]

ATT wrote and said all blocks will be removed 24-48 hours so that means Saturday or Sunday.

[admin]

SERVER MAINTENANCE TONIGHT 2000 EDT approximately (when my guru guy overseas wakes up)

I need him fresh and fast. We're changing servers to a bigger chunk of hardware, extra CPU and faster connections out of Dallas Texas! Our data is backed up on Amazon Web Services in Ohio nightly! I am in Calgary. My guru is somewhere near Australia. Small world.

[admin]

Work all done. Any comments please list them here. ATT emails should re-start in the next day the company says.

[admin]

Where the credit should go. For those of you that have been here for some time you will remember each year or two the site swaps servers when the renewal rates go up or support is lousy. That is the typical business model to double or triple rates thinking the cost of moving has a lot of friction involved. And, for most sites it isn't a big deal to shell out $500-$1000 annually. On BT, they charge vendors that much for each vendor and there's a ton of them shelling out to reach tens of thousands of Beech flyers. That makes sense.

Upwork has freelancers all over the world for almost any area of expertise.

This January I decided to move to Azure (Microsoft cloud platform) since I had been doing some client work there and it was fast and easy to use and the price is right as the company tries to compete with Amazon and other cloud vendors.

Azure platform is full featured, powerful, can be overwhelming sometimes

I'm not a Linux expert but I was running my own servers from home way back when redhat first was sold at Radio Shack almost two decades ago. My first TBM 700 owner site was served from my living room. So, when I decided to migrate to Azure I used a VM (virtual machine) pre-packaged linux server plus email server, subdomains for testing and a place for the LancairParts.store. It takes roughly 125 processes that make a server like this run properly and safely but most of it is packaged and auto-installing. Most of it.

So, it took a few days to get the site working but I failed many days at the email since I was actually running about 4 virtual sites into one server. Plus, I was in Mexico which slowed the pace of progress. So, when I came home I decided to look for an expert to advise on the best setup and fix a few issues. I placed an open contract requesting some help.

BT is not shy about fees to be present on the site. Sponsors pay thousands annually. BT wanted almost a $1000 for me to list my transponder worth $2000. Nothing cheap at Beech.

I do some freelance work on various platforms on a place called Upwork.com. I also hire freelancers for stuff and often I find terrific people. I found a trademark expert in Toronto, a logo designer in India and I've contracted my services to dozens of clients with interesting problems in data manipulation and progamming. On Tuesday of this week I received a proposal from Asfahani in Indonesia, literally 5 minutes after I posted a list of stuff I needed fixed. I looked at his credentials as system administator, freelance earnings more than $US100k and he currently had 50+ clients all providing 5/5 star reviews. I didn't even interview, I just hit the hire button.

LancairTalk purring away at its new home barely ticking over 0% CPU.

I could not keep up as he did a quick review of the server and suggested a different setup on a different platform. He just kept getting things done so quickly I barely had time to feed my list as he was knocking this off. Passwords and details were flying around and before I could organize my side, he was ready for the next problem. He fixed the email servers, re-designed the website operations, moved everything to Dallas, created auto backups on Amazon servers in Ohio every night, automated the site software upgrades, implemented tight security on all the access, fixed about 20 things that were bugging me and that I had probably caused myself (permissions, user ids, directory structures, spam detection software and much more).

Tonight my time, 7am in Indonesia, we made the final swap over to a new server with double CPU and a better layout than what I had planned. It took him literally 30 minutes tonight to make the swap and normally it takes me days. So, this expert, sysadmin for institutions and helping clients worldwide gets $18/hour. The whole week of help was maybe $200 which is funded by the donations received. And, he was polite, fast, expert at his tasks, never made a mistake, showed me some things I had never seen before for sharing sensitive data and made things very easy this week. So, if anyone needs linux platform admin help or AWS or systems advice he is a wonderful soul in the tech world.

My plan is to keep his contract open and whenever I need advice he just pops up online and fixes it. I still have never talked face-to-face. We did all that with chat. His work has allowed some time to look at the LancairParts.store to see if it makes sense and also to complete the import of all those old LML messages that have a lot of value for builders today.

Tonight, I'm pretty happy that things are in good hands for the next few years for sure. I've got a really good guy to help if needed and the basics are covered in security, backup and site operations. Now, to get my ADS-B flight test done and collect my $500 rebate!

[Charles Newman]

After receiving the digest for a few days....No digest received on Friday or Saturday ☹️

[admin]

Charles, the digest shows it was mailed (here are the last six mailings) and I did not see a bounce from Yahoo. These are all referenced to EDT times and I believe that is correct on this new server still. Can you check if you have the last one sent 0000h 26th?

The scheduled one from this morning 0000h 27th was probably messed up by me changing things last night. I had to manually send them until the automatic trigger was setup. If you have the 26th digest then tonight you will get the 28th automatically and that will cover all unsent messages from the 27th. Post back please.

[edit, there were some not sent overnight--my mistake--fixing and will re-send missing hours]