Hi,
This is a rant -
I'm sick of mail servers rejecting my emails. My outgoing mails from
domains like (interesthink.com, quee.org and kquee.com) gets routinely
rejected by mail servers.
It's still ok when I get messages back from servers telling me that
they're rejecting my emails. If that happens, all I need is to resend
the email from a trusted account (usually my singnet or fastmail
account). Most of the time, I do not know about it and *assumed* that
the mail is delivered successfully. As a result, alot of my important
emails gets delayed and prospects/work gets pushed back.
I do understand that these are efforts at fighting spam. I feel that the
situation is getting out of control. It seems that in our effort to do
so, we are giving up our freedom to own and operate email domains *and*
servers.
It's getting so bad that even if I were to host my emails with big
reputable email hosts like google.com (Interesthink.com and quee.org are
hosted off Google Apps), they are still rejected by the more aggressive
email servers!
Now, I'm forced to go back to Gmail with an address of
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]". After having so many of my emails getting rejected
my mail servers, I've figured that this is a losing war that I'm fighting.
Does anyone here have a way out of here? I still want to keep my
multiple unique identities ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
[EMAIL PROTECTED]).
(BTW, a lot of email servers *reject* your email if the "To:" field
doesn't match your SMTP server's domain. Domain masking doesn't work.)
Kelvin Quee
==
Typical error messages goes like -
<begin>
The original message was received at Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:58:40 +0800
from xxx.xx.xxx.x
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(reason: 550 5.7.1 <Your e-mail was rejected by an anti-spam content
filter on gateway (xxx.107.xxx.212). Rea...uage, graphics, or spam-like
characteristics. Removing these may let the e-mail through the filter.>)
</end>
or
<begin>
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Technical details of permanent failure:
TEMP_FAILURE: Could not initiate SMTP conversation with any hosts:
[smtp2.xxx.edu.sg <http://smtp2.ntu.edu.sg>. (10): 421 Temporarily
unavailable service due to potential threat.]
[smtp.xxx.edu.sg <http://smtp.ntu.edu.sg>. (10): 421 Temporarily
unavailable service due to potential threat.
421 Temporarily unavailable service due to potential threat.]
</end>
--
Kelvin Quee
+65 9177 3635
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bridging People with Ideas
http://InteresThink.com
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