> On 5/18/06 6:35 PM, Scott Haneda wrote: > >> From: is a header field that has no bearing on the received: headers. I >> would have to disagree with this statement entirely, no spam techniques that >> I have heard of could ever block based on the from not matching the received >> hostname. Any virtual hosted email server will have a hostname, generally >> that of the MX record, however, they may have 1000's or more domains hosted >> on that machine, all using different domains for their from address. > > You're free to disagree, of course; all I have is my own experience with > this exact problem, with my earthlink mail being rejected or killfiled by > clients because the sending server was charter.net and the reply to was > earthlink.net. Friends found my .mac mail relegated to their spam folder; > John's own experience mirrors this -- that is, some of his own mail is > filing into Junk, and I have to believe it's because of the mismatch between > sending and reply to information in the email. > > In my own quest to uncover the "why", Charter explained that many ISPs > filter mismatched mail as spam. Earthlink's tech support corroborated the > notion. Port 587 was my way around all of it.
Yes, but you have nothing empirical to support your claim, I can assure you, email as we know it would fall apart were this to be the case. Being able to change your from address at will, easily, is part of how email works so well. Lots of people want to change that, and SPF is a start of this, but it is not going away any time soon. More than likely, charter.net, a known cess pool of spammers and admins who take no action on those spammers, has been blacklisted and at the very least, tossed into a negative threshold. The mere fact your email traversed their network put you on a bad list. If the email was in fact rejected, in most cases, the bounce message will explain what is happening, and why, along with a known error code you can lookup and get more info on. I have never had a single email bounced back to me for a reason I could not figure out, the fact my hostname has never matched my reply to address has never once been the case. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 <http://www.newgeo.com> Novato, CA U.S.A. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
