Thursday, January 23, 2014

Coremail

I heard about Coremail for a very long time. Coremail is the first platform in China made by Chinese for Chinese to solve the E-mail Marketing supports and services problems.

I don't know much about this ESP, but I am pretty sure, that this platform has been used most widest in China, by not only in business, for the big companies with big brands, but also govenment, schools and such important organisation. Typical :)

By any chance, I booked the newsletter of air china, who is sending emails over Coremail
The comfimationsemail looks ugly... only text, no any graphs at all

尊敬的会员:
您的知音卡号为XXXXXXXXXXX,开通邮箱作为国航知音网站的登录账户请点击以下地址 http://ffp.airchina.com.cn/user.action?method=addBindEmail&member=c2FpY29fbGVlQDE2My5jb20=&inmid=MS1IWUgzMFE= 进行确认。如果您在电子邮件中无法点击此地址,请将此地址复制到浏览器的地址栏中并回车确认。此邮件无需回复,如需与国航俱乐部联系,请发送邮件到ffp@mail.airchina.com.cn或拔打服务热线4006 100666。

The link was unavailable to be clicked from the mailbox.

If I check the header of this mail,


I actually expected to see the IPv6, no sign

Monday, January 06, 2014

12306 confirmation emails

12306 is the official homepage of "Sinorail Customer Service Center".

If you'd like to book a railway ticket for your next trip, you might just sign up and use their online ticket buying system.

The funny thing is, that lots of people have difficulties to get the confirmation email in their inbox after the registration.

It seems only the QQ Mailbox can solve this issue. see

Let's check the header to see what happens. I signed up with my netease mailaddress at 163.com.



12306 is straight using double opt-in, but they are not using any authentications, even don't set up a SPF record. What a shame!

the famous ROKSO list

The Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) database collates information and evidence on known professional spam operations that have been terminated by a minimum of 3 Internet Service Providers for spam offenses. 


Spamhaus does not accept delisting requests for ROKSO records. In order to be delisted from ROKSO there must be a 6 month period with no spam traceable to the ROKSO entity. After that 6 months the list can petition for a review of the record. If the spam has stopped their record is retired. 

On the today's list, I saw the name of my collegue

Congratulations, Andreas! You did it :D