Barracuda

Barracuda update

The Barracuda twitter account has been very helpful and responsive to the issue. A few hours ago they tweeted that the problem should have been fixed.

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Increase in Barracuda IP blocks

A number of folks are talking about a significant uptick in Barracuda IP blocks over the last few days. These blocks appear to be affecting wide ranges of IPs across multiple networks.

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Barracuda problems

Folks were posting earlier today noticing problems delivering to Barracuda hosted services. The good news is Barracuda has been updating their status page. As of now, the status page says things are improving.

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Barracuda Email Security Service disruption

Starting around 10:15 2:45 EDT this morning, the Barracuda Email Security Service is having a issues processing email for customers.
More information on Twitter and reddit

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Looking for some experiences…

… with emailreg.org. A client of mine asked today if it was worth registering domains with emailreg.org as a whitelisting process. I’ve asked a few delivery folks for their feedback, but I was wondering what the broader email community thought. Does registering there help delivery to domains behind barracuda processes? Drop me a line on our contact page or add your experiences in the comments.
I normally reject comments with fake or forged email addresses. Because this may be sensitive and some commenters may want to be anonymous, I’ll let anonymous comments through if they’re clearly not forging someone else’s address.

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Barracuda filters clicking all links

Earlier this month I mentioned that a number of people were seeing issues with multiple links in emails being clicked by Barracuda filters. I invited readers to contact me and provide me with any information or evidence they had. Not only did a number of senders contact me, but one of the support reps at Barracuda also contacted me.
At issue is a part of the Barracuda email filter call the intent filter. There are 3 different modules to this filter.

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Reputation monitoring sites

There are a number of sites online that provide public information about reputation of an IP address or domain name.

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