Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 00:31:04 +0100 From: Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: domain and email problems Message-ID: <200402150031.04136.danny@ricin.com> In-Reply-To: <402EA391.8000809@shaw.ca> References: <402EA391.8000809@shaw.ca>
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On Saturday 14 February 2004 23:39, RYAN vAN GINNEIKEN wrote: > Just wondering why when i send email to yahoo or lycos and probably > hotmail too it always ends up in there bulk mail folder. This is a > great inconvenience do i need to be on or off some sort of list or > something. Any help would be appreciated > Are you using a "fake" domain? E.g. 'HELO yourbox' doesn't match your ISP's, or the like. Reverse DNS is also something often used as a criterion. They may use that when filtering, it's very common (which IMHO is kinda silly, they should instead use a Bayesian filter and let the user dump their spam into a SPAM folder, then use that periodically for training the filter). You may even be unfortunate as to being part of a blacklisted IP block by one of the anti spam houses whose databases are often used for filtering. It's hard to say what exactly they do. HTH, Dan
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