I'm not saying they're required to accept everyone's mail. And I hold nothing against anyone trying to protect themselves or their users from spammers. But if they have decided not to accept my TLD, it would be nice to know that instead of running around wondering what list my domain found itself on. Whether that is via the reject message, or replying to an email to the relevant contact points.
Of course, as a mail admin, and with this being my personal domain, I know what to do when I get a bounce like this, and I have alternatives available. But someone who buys a cheap domain and mail hosting for a small business or something like that and gets the bounce message will have no idea what to do about it. In any case, someone very kindly contacted me off list about my situation. I was just sharing the example of a known TLD block I experienced and what it can be like from the blocked side. On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 3:01 PM John Levine <[email protected]> wrote: > It appears that Frost The Fox via mailop <[email protected]> said: > >-=-=-=-=-=- > >-=-=-=-=-=- > > > >Which I can understand, I obviously might not like it as a legitimate user > >of the TLD, but sometimes a measure like that could be the most effective > >mitigation (especially for smaller scale ops). What I did have a problem > >with was both the fact that the message was generic ("sender rejected"), > >which isn't very helpful if I wasn't a mail admin, and that no one seemed > >willing to talk to me about it (emails to contact addresses were not > >allowed from my domain either, and emailing from other addresses went > >unanswered). > > I would definitely ask them to refund the money you paid them to accept > your mail. > > Oh, wait. > > If you want people to accept your mail, it is a good idea not to look > like a spammer. It is hard for me to imagine why anyone would want to > use a .PW domain for mail other, perhaps, than the handful of people > who live there. > > R's, > John >
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