Typically, try to avoid keywords like Viagra, sex, pron and prince from Algeria in your email ;) The complete list can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam_techniques_(e-mail)#Automated_techniques_for_e-mail_administrators
ps. Police is _not_ over-aggressive. You just need to get a "driving license" fist. On 11/03/2008, Kelvin Quee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Anton and Chiang, > > It seems that SPF is the solution to this. > > Typically, after making the SPF entries, do you still suffer from such > problems like an over-aggressive spam filter? > > Kelvin Quee > > > > Anton wrote: > http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en-in&answer=33786 > > On 11/03/2008, Anton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Kelvin, > > It looks like you are facing SPF protection and simple fix of TXT dns > record should help you to authorize google to transmit e-mail for your > domain. See > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework for > more details. > At the end your record might look like this: > @ IN TXT "v=spf1 a include:aspmx2.googlemail.com ~all" > plus all other allowed domains: > quee.org. 602331 IN MX 30 aspmx2.googlemail.com. > quee.org. 602331 IN MX 50 aspmx3.googlemail.com. > quee.org. 602331 IN MX 10 aspmx.l.google.com. > quee.org. 602331 IN MX 20 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com. > quee.org. 602331 IN MX 30 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com. > > Cheers, > > Anton > > > On 11/03/2008, Kelvin Quee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Slugnet mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet > > > > > > > -- > Kelvin Quee > +65 9177 3635 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Bridging People with Ideas > http://InteresThink.com > > > > _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
