Hi,
Occasionally over the past couple or three months, I have been
experiencing e-mail deliver failures, and I'm wondering if servers are
kicking them out because there is no To: (all BCC'ed addresses) in them.
Specifically, in December I had about 7 Hotmail addresses get rejected
(Status 5.0.0, it said in the error reply from the Hotmail server). Then
in January I had one bounced from a friend's junior college's server (550
Relaying prohibited, that one said), which was also BCC'ed. Then this
weekend, I had a BCC'ed message to a local ISP of a friend bounce with
this message:
Deferred: Connection refused by mail.bigrivertel.net
I can figure that ISP's servers are (Hopefully) checking for BCC-only
messages and think that they are from spammers. But I know that the
spammers are getting around this by sending CC'ed spam to only 5 specific
addresses ('cause every week I'll get 1-2 in this format).
I don't want to reveal my recipients' email addresses by using CC or even
by sacrificing one's address in the To: line. I figure that someone on
this list has probably dealt with this dilemma. So, what suggestions that
work can you offer?
Thanks,
Jim
The secret to staying calm in a crisis
is in not knowing all the facts.
-Lefty, from "The Lives of the Cowboys"
(on NPR radio)
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