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AWS Marketplace Subscription Mailing Lists

Post by invade » 2022/11/03 10:57:29

Hi.

At some point in the past we must have subscribed to some of the CentOS Linux AWS Marketplace subscriptions.

The subscriptions were cancelled years ago.

We are still receiving emails from Amazon regarding these subscriptions.

I requested that Amazon stop sending the emails, and they have advised me that:
"subscribers to an image are automatically added in the vendor’s mailing list. AWS Marketplace team uses this mailing list (maintained at vendor’s end) to share updates related to that specific image."

An example of one of the emails is:
"We are writing to inform you that, as of October 1, 2022, Amazon Web Services will no longer offer "CentOS 8 (x86_64) - with Updates HVM" to new subscribers on AWS Marketplace."

I double checked with them, and they assured me that the emails are originating from CentOS, not Amazon (even though everything in the emails received suggests they have come from Amazon).

When I try to check our CentOS mailing list subscriptions, I get:
"CentOS roster authentication failed."

Can anyone tell me:
1. What mailing list have we been added to?
2. What credentials were used to subscribe?
3. How do we remove ourselves from the mailing list?

Many thanks.

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Re: AWS Marketplace Subscription Mailing Lists

Post by TrevorH » 2022/11/03 16:01:20

I have asked around and as far as everyone is aware, there is no such thing from the CentOS side. I would examine the mail headers to see where these mails originate from and then go back to Amazon once you discover they really are from them...
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
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Re: AWS Marketplace Subscription Mailing Lists

Post by invade » 2022/11/03 16:31:14

Thanks for the response.

When I double checked with them, I specifically asked:
If the email we have received is from CentOS, and not Amazon, why does everything indicate it has come from Amazon?

For example, it starts:

"Greetings from AWS Marketplace"

and finishes:

"Thank you,

--The AWS Marketplace Team
https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace "

The "From" and "Reply" address is no-reply-aws@amazon.com .

The email originated from mail server a11-66.smtp-out.amazonses.com .

Before I post a question in the CentOS forums, I just want to be absolutely sure that this email has definitely come from CentOS and not Amazon.
and their response was that it had definitely originated from CentOS, not Amazon.

Are you OK if I reference this thread in my response to them?

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Re: AWS Marketplace Subscription Mailing Lists

Post by TrevorH » 2022/11/03 16:38:27

Look at the various "Received:" headers in the full mail, read them from bottom upwards as that's the order in which the servers received the mails. Then you should be able to see where they originated from.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
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Re: AWS Marketplace Subscription Mailing Lists

Post by invade » 2022/11/03 16:41:47

Yeah. As I told them:
The email originated from mail server a11-66.smtp-out.amazonses.com.
i.e. their Amazon Simple Email Service (SES).

I'll go back to them with your response.

Thanks.

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Re: AWS Marketplace Subscription Mailing Lists

Post by TrevorH » 2022/11/03 16:53:12

I had a quick look at the email headers on a logwatch mail from one of my systems in AWS and they gobble all the Received headers from before it reaches their amazonses server so you cannot tell where it came from other than "somewhere in AWS".
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke

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