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Post by haswell »

johnisgood wrote: post #70
9dev wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The snarky „just don’t use Exchange, duh!“ doesn’t either. It’s a non-solution that armchair experts provide, who aren’t responsible for managing mailing for lots of people.

There is no alternative to Exchange that does not involve Microsoft?

There are many environments where people don’t have a choice but to maintain what is in production.

Whether or not viable alternatives exist, those alternatives don’t magically change org structure, office politics, budget, current business priorities, etc.

Bottom line: many people managing exchange don’t have the luxury of evaluating this problem in terms of alternatives.

Re: iCloud Mail has DNS misconfigured?

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Post by johnisgood »

haswell wrote: post #71
johnisgood wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no alternative to Exchange that does not involve Microsoft?

There are many environments where people don’t have a choice but to maintain what is in production. Whether or not viable alternatives exist, those alternatives don’t magically change org structure, office politics, budget, current business priorities, etc. Bottom line: many people managing exchange don’t have the luxury of evaluating this problem in terms of alternatives.

I do not disagree with this.

Re: iCloud Mail has DNS misconfigured?

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Post by CraigRood »

Galaco wrote: post #52

iCloud Custom Domains & Mail are filled with bugs. My favourite one is that if my custom email I want to register has EVER been associated with an Apple account, it can never be used as a custom domain, unless that domain is set to catch all; it is impossible to add that specific address; it just errors without any specific message. The original account was fully deleted; going to the arduous process they set up that…

For what it's worth, I was able to add my custom domain to iCloud under this exact scenario without any issues. This was 3 years ago, so I don't know if anything has changed, and I didn't have the 'catch all' limitation either.

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Post by pas »

kemotep wrote: post #69
TabTwo wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sure you can, take your business elsewhere

It’s a minor (but annoying) issue to make the reason to migrate 1,500 users. Who many of which would still need licenses for Excel anyway. Microsoft being annoying and frustrating and having so many issues is why I have a well paying job in IT.

that sounds like the lump of labor fallacy. there's plenty of things to do in IT besides babysitting hypocrite hypergiants.

Re: iCloud Mail has DNS misconfigured?

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Post by wildekek »

Avamander wrote: post #21

They also started using new IPs without PTR records to send out mail. Though so has Microsoft just recently. Both heavily frown upon that when receiving mail themselves. Do as we say...

Not only does Apple frown upon that, they just silently drop emails that are sent from a server without PTR records. Yes, that includes their own servers. Yes, sending email from iCloud to iCloud is silently dropped if they decide you get assigned an outgoing server without PTR. The absolute amateurism just blows my mind.

Re: iCloud Mail has DNS misconfigured?

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Post by wildekek »

kemotep wrote: post #27
Avamander wrote: post #21

They also started using new IPs without PTR records to send out mail. Though so has Microsoft just recently. Both heavily frown upon that when receiving mail themselves. Do as we say...

I hate getting a report telling me my work domain is blocked because it is missing a PTR record and we use Exchange Online. I can’t do anything about that!

Be glad you receive a report. Apple just silently drops the email.

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Post by darkwater »

Polizeiposaune wrote: post #23

This was mentioned earlier today on the mailop list: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailop@mailop.org/msg24300.html with a later response indicating that Apple was aware: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailop@mailop.org/msg24312.html

Greybeard here but it gives me shivers that in a mailop ML people top-posts.
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