We all know what good biz is… and we know what less than satisfactory means.

Platforms like ebay, etsy, bonanza make effort to reduce or eliminate the possibility of anyone using their system to generate unwanted email AKA ‘SPAM’

It does happen sometimes and they seem to quickly stop it as they hold the ‘account keys’. The messages users send go through their servers and they are responsible for that content for it is generated on their system as part of biz.

SO…

Managing many email servers, I am always looking for a way to stop the extra weight of unwanted emails.

But how do you know ? You are the management of the server, not the recipient…. USER COMPLAINTS.

So, my team tells them… “look in the email for a ‘unsubscribe button’

They often tell me there is not one and most times I know that is not correct.

Along came JONES… a name for a guy who forwarded me his emails and… he was right.Not only was there no unsubscribe, they wanted you to log into/create a account to change your settings. Like we all know that one right ?

Now that kinda stuff gets me excited in the worst way. For you will never solve internet security until you solve this type of SPAM.

Looking through the system as a security measure, I found many coming from similar addresses. I then queried users and wow… did I get a ear-full+.

So I asked around at a small network of webmasters where we share info about such things.

So, we put our stuff together and created a block list of IP’s for shopify email servers. We can update the list faster than they can get new IP’s.

While you might think it is a bit rash to block all of it, but they make their own rules and this has been going on for many years.

It’s not like they have not had time to correct the issue. Marketers market as far as they can get away with. There must be a price paid for lesser behavior if there is no law stopping it.

So…

Here are the IP’s I used in a CSF format for permanent block record.

# shopify
35.185.32.98 # do not delete
35.188.30.230 # do not delete
35.196.108.190 # do not delete
149.72.40.188 # do not delete
149.72.40.204 # do not delete
149.72.45.100 # do not delete
149.72.47.116 # do not delete
149.72.49.200 # do not delete
149.72.77.15 # do not delete
149.72.90.155 # do not delete
149.72.90.158 # do not delete
149.72.137.2 # do not delete
149.72.144.196 # do not delete
149.72.144.121 # do not delete
149.72.146.168 # do not delete
149.72.152.252 # do not delete
149.72.153.80 # do not delete
149.72.154.99 # do not delete
149.72.155.155 # do not delete
149.72.164.129 # do not delete
149.72.165.172 # do not delete
149.72.186.225 # do not delete
149.72.188.6 # do not delete
149.72.221.62 # do not delete
149.72.235.154 # do not delete
149.72.238.129 # do not delete
149.72.250.11 # do not delete
149.72.250.101 # do not delete
167.89.88.139 # do not delete
168.245.23.220 # do not delete
168.245.113.14 # do not delete
192.254.119.100 # do not delete

To use other methods… as a host name…

*.mailer.shopify.com

where * could be o1 – o31 (letter o not zero)

Good luck in your efforts for a better internet. You might want to warn them before you act rash. I doubt it helps, but just the same.

I can’t tell you what to do, just what I did.