I didn't keep the returned mail but running mailq on the box shows
something like this:
mailq
Mail Queue (1 request)
--Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------
UAA15355 118 Thu Jan 21 20:21 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(Deferred: 443 Blocked for spam - see http://www.webtv.net/an)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
At 10:01 PM 1/23/99 -0700, Brent Sims wrote:
>Robert,
>
> I could be wrong. Thats why I waited so long to say this but...
>
> I really doubt that pobox.com domain has been banned. Odds are
>that your setup is causing the problem. I've had this happen to me many
>times and each time I managed to get though by tweaking my setup.
>
> What I've learned can be summed up quite simply:
>
> Your machine either needs to be named localhost.localdomain or
>must use a fully qualified domain name. You can't do the me.pobox.com bs
>and expect it to work on the big, paranoid domains, even though it should
>work.
>
> Sendmail has to be setup correctly too. It needs to use a
>quailified domain name, and odds are the masquerade envelop thingy needs
>to be set too.
>
> Simply, spam filters look for signs of a machine which appears to
>be trying to present itself as some other machine. Thus, to get past them
>all one really needs to do is present themselves as who they really are.
>As simpilistic as that may sound, the policy has long worked for me.
>
> my 2 cents...
>
> Brent Sims
>
>->
>->In message <4.1.19990122093547.01d58840@mailhost>,
>->Bob Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>->
>->>For some reason, webtv.net has decided that my discussion group is spam and
>->>refuses all email from my domain --- both majordomo and my own personal
>->>emails. In fact, some people from webtv.net have complained that they are
>->>off the list and want to kow why and I can't even respond to them.
>->
