Author: kevan.benson@sonic.com

Spam problems

Sonic customers have been aggressively targeted by spammers the past few days, and while we’ve been blocking them as they shift to different sources, it’s uncovered a few problems in our spam infrastructure that we’ve now fixed. These problems include a recently introduced bug in our spam servers that caused them to slowly overload until they couldn’t keep up with our normal mail load and allowed messages to go unchecked, and an error in our more targeted server blocking that meant some of our direct spam server blocks were not being honored.

We’re sorry for any inconvenience this caused. We take our role in providing reliable email with a minimum of spam to our customers very seriously, and plan to continue providing the high level of service we have in the past.

If you continue to see an unusual volume of Spam, please contact support@sonic.net and we’ll help.

– Sonic.net Systems Department

Mail autoresponse problem

Starting yesterday afternoon after around 3pm, email that had an autoresponse configured started bouncing with errors about a missing SpamAssassin module. This was due to a mistake on our part that lead to the incorrect package automatically installing on a system it should not have. The problem was identified and erroneously considered fixed a few hours after it happened, but persisted until approximately 9:30am this morning when it was ultimately resolved.

We’re sorry for any problems this caused, and if you’re still experiencing any sort of problems related to this, please contact support@sonic.net or call support so we can help you resolve them.

-System Operations