On Friday, August 9th, 2024 at 9:19 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Aug 2024, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> 
> > Assuming that salmo hosts both e-mail domains, here are a couple scenarios
> > that occur to me:
> > 
> > Timing. If spamcop mistakenly blocked the klaviyomail.com domain and the
> > latter's admins successfully cleared it up after the first message was sent
> > but before the second was sent, the difference may be due to nothing more
> > than the timing.
> 
> 
> Paul,
> 
> When I didn't see the message sent to my personal domain I looked at the
> mail log. It was only a few minutes later that I provided the business email
> address and that immediately came through. I'm sure the company is unaware
> of the blacklisting and, of course, the customer service rep couldn't care
> less. Messages to both the personal and business addresses come from the
> same domain.
> 
> > Different configs. I'm not a postfix user, so I don't know if it's possible
> > that one of your e-mail domains has a different configuration than the 
> > other.
> 
> 
> No. Procmail sorts incoming messages to the appropriate files, so personal
> messages go to the 'personal' file while business messages (and spam) go the
> appropriate mail list or other file.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rich

Keep in mind that the whole point of spam blockers and email verification 
systems is to try and confirm that the email received is actually the email 
that was sent. Sometimes messages are going to be blocked because of 
intermittent problems. Dropped/corrupted packets, network outages, software 
glitches, and automated MITM attacks out on the open internet can all result in 
one-off scenarios where a data packet gets flagged and dealt with according to 
the receivers security policy. The internet is designed to be fault tolerant 
because packets of information break all the time. Resend and try again.

Note that you didn't mention if subsequent emails continued to fail - You 
encountered a single failure, made a change, and noticed a difference. So now 
you have no way to isolate the problem. You should have just asked them to 
resend to the same address. We can't really troubleshoot based on the 
information provided. 

Attempting to discern why a single email failed is like finding a needle in a 
haystack. Sure, it can be done, but all you are going to find is a needle and 
is that really what you should be looking for right now?
-Ben

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