If you've paid them already, complain nicely. If their service is not compatable with your needs, get your money back. Hopefully they will actually fix the problem. If they lose enough business, they might get a clue. Rich in LA CA
--- On Tue, 3/2/10, William Boswell <wbosw...@cemeteryguy.com> wrote: > From: William Boswell <wbosw...@cemeteryguy.com> > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Test-- Subscribed, but no messages arriving > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 9:53 PM > I understand many of these web > hosting services will block accounts if too much mail is > coming through. I just switched from another provider > back in December so maybe I should go back to using my gmail > account even though it didn't seem to work too well a week > ago. I wasn't receiving messages from the list. > > I suspect it's this hosting provider that is the problem > and I didn't even think of it at the time since this list > receives a lot of email. I'll try unsubscribing and > resubscribing under my other email address. I've > already paid this company a year in advance so I don't need > problems with them. > > Bill > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian L. Lightfoot [mailto:br...@the-lightfoots.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 4:50 PM > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Test-- Subscribed, but no messages > arriving > > There are at least two incarnations of the definition of > "greylisted". One involves something that is not yet > "blacklisted" but on a watch list, or such similar > happenings when a particular mail server is ill-configured. > But the most common usage is that of an anti-spam filter > which effectively blocks the message the first time it is > received and requests that it be resent after a certain > delay, typical 300 seconds or so. Since most spammers don't > bother resending messages, legitimate messages are supposed > to get resent as per standard protocol. > > In other words, your mail hosting account has filters > established on it. The downside is that all your mail is > delayed. It can get worse; if the sending server is > configured to ignore such requests, then even legitimate > messages will never get sent a second time and thus never > arrive. > > Greylisting practices are highly debated and one big > criticism is that their very nature triples the amount of > messages being sent, as if the Internet weren't becoming > more and more crowded every day. In many European and Asian > countries where the average user bandwidth is much more than > their American counterparts can enjoy, this practice is not > yet seen as a problem. > > Brian in CA > > > -----Original Message----- > From: William Boswell [mailto:wbosw...@cemeteryguy.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 11:24 AM > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Test-- Subscribed, but no messages > arriving > > Ron: > > It wasn't left in my outbox, but I did receive two messages > from a server that indicated it had not been sent. > This is part of that message: > > Delay reason: SMTP error from remote > mail server after RCPT TO:<LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com>: > host mail.legacyusers.com [69.175.37.210]: > 451 Greylisted, please try again in 900 seconds > > I have no idea what 451 Greylisted means. Shortly > after receiving this second message the Saturday email was > finally delivered. The message was delivered by the > email hosting service (my hosted web service). > > Bill > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 10:26 AM > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Test-- Subscribed, but no messages > arriving > > Bill, > > Loads of reasons: > It's in html which makes it bigger <vbg> > Delay with your ISP > Delivered by the country route > Got lost > Delays with the Legacy Server (though I haven't found any) > Although the details attached to the post show that it was > not posted until > today - was it left in your outbox? > > Ron Ferguson > _____________________________________________________ > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: William Boswell > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Sent: 02 March 2010 15:11 > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Test-- Subscribed, but no messages > arriving > > > This is weird. I sent this on Saturday and it has > taken three days to post. > I've been receiving messages from the board, but wondered > why this one took > so long to post. > > From: William Boswell [mailto:wbosw...@cemeteryguy.com] > Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 1:14 PM > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Test-- Subscribed, but no messages > arriving > > I had the same problem a couple of days ago, so I > unsubscribed and > resubscribed using a different email address. I think > it has something to > do with Gmail since I normally use that email address and > not this one. > > Bill Boswell > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 > 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ > > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 > 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ > > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
