Yesterday, I was attempting to distribute our company-wide email list (a .csv file) as an attachment to all the members of the list, but Telus' mail server rejected my email with this error message.:
> Sending failed: > The message content was not accepted. > The server responded: "5.7.1 This message does not comply with required > standards. " Gee...thanks for the cryptic error message! I contacted Telus Hosting and they responded with: > Please note that the new SPAM filtering that has been activated on > the telus.net and telusplanet.net domains is causing the error. > > There are new directives to help reduce the propagation of SPAM, > leading to the new filtering and therefore if you change the extension > to a 'txt' from 'cvs' it should go through. Ah...it doesn't comply with "Telus" standards. OK, I tried renaming the .csv to .txt and that didn't work either. I guess .csv and .txt have joined the ranks of "hostile" file types ;) My email must have flagged the spam filter because it was a bulk-email (well as far as sending to 70 addresses can be considered bulk) with a "hostile" attachment. I can send out the .csv attachment to everyone individually, and I can bulk mail everyone without the attachment, I just can't do both. Here's more weirdness: at one point I did manage to get the bulk email with attachment through, all except for the last eight people on the list, who for some reason were rejected. Good news though. If I rename the .csv to .jpg the attachment goes through fine. I guess .jpg is still safe...there must not be any SPAM being sent as jpegs ;) -- Peter Pankonin, digitalcrucible There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
