Re: Mail.app being blocked?

Bob Harris wrote:
In article <n5GdnWGh45_Z4TDZnZ2dnUVZ_oednZ2d@xxxxxxxxxx>,
sawney beane <beadle1833@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

TaliesinSoft wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 14:34:15 -0500, sawney beane wrote
(in article <-ZidndVLIs9c-DDZnZ2dnUVZ_q6dnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxx>):

In 48 hours I've sent several emails to two friends with two ISPs. None has gone through.

Mail I send to myself comes through. Three messages I've sent to my yahoo account have, after a period of hours, ended up in the Bulk Mail folder, indicating that Yahoo has identified them as spam.

Of those three, my name is missing from the return address of one, and it has been flagged as having an attachment.

For weeks, a correspondent has reported that my email often comes flagged as having an attachment although I sent no attachment. I don't know if that's related to the current problem.

Could Mail.app be doing something that causes mail servers to identify my messages as spam?
I have a somewhat similar problem in that mail sent to me can take up to 24 hours to reach me when the sender has used a particular internet service. This is most likely to happen if the sender has addressed the mail to a number of recipients, say three to six. I've examined the long headers and the delay is not with my own mail service, dot.mac, but with the sender's service.

My gut feeling is that the sending service somehow thinks that the sender has sent out spam. As an aside, I think spam will cease to exist only when the time comes when sending spam becomes uneconomical.

The emails in question had only one address each. I see from Yahoo's headers that all mail from my ISP's ESMTP IP is categorized as spam. I also see that Yahoo stamps it about 90 minutes later than my ISP.

It's a tiny ISP, housed in a shed on a farm. Maybe they went away for a couple of days, and spammers found a way to use their server.

I still have no theory about why mail I send with no attachment often arrives with a paper clip, signifying an attachment. I wonder if it has anything to do with the little picture in the upper right corner of messages sent with Mail.app. I wish I knew how to get rid of the picture.

maybe get a gmail account. gmail will allow you to read and send mail through their servers using Mail.app. gmail will even allow you to us a different valid from address. For example, I have my own domain name and email address which is setup to forwarded to gmail. When I send mail my return address is not my gmail account, but rather my own myname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx But gmail is doing all the heavy lifting.

And gmail has the benefit that I can also read it online from other locations via the web. You can even connect using a secure connection via https://gmail.com and all your web interactions are encrypted.

Just a thought.

Bob Harris

They say I need an invitation. Rats!
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