On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Welcome to the world of pain and frustration that is dealing with > Microsoft and Windows live mail spam filtering - yes, they do accept > your mail and then silently discard it. > > I had the same problem. I hammered and hammered with the customer > support forms. I could never answer their follow-ups because they > wouldn't accept mail from my postmaster address which I used thinking > it would give me credibility. My advice here is to sign up for and use > a hotmail address in your communications.
Thanks Mark. I was afraid I was going to get an answer like that. :-( What is the email address to start that process (if you remember)? > Anyway, they finally put me on a 2 month 'mitigation' during which my > mail was accepted and their spam filters were supposed to retrain, but > the day the mitigation ended, the started flaging >10% of my list mail > as spam (I had also added SPF records prior to the mitigation). > Hmm. That isn't promising. > My mail still mostly falls in the 'yellow' (10% to 90% spam) range on > 'SNDS' (their Smart Network Data Services reporting service), but it > is delivered to either inboxes or spam folders, and all mail is > delivered to the inbox of those who whitelist my domain. > > This in spite of the fact that my complaint rate is essentially zero. Making it to my subscribers Spam folder would be an improvement. Right now as far as I can tell, they are just dropping it. Well, I'll guess I'll have to bite the bullet and sign up for a hotmail.... er, um.... "Windows Live" mail account. I've resisted for years. Thanks -Jeff D ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
