On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 at 14:41:06, Robert Newson wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>Dilwyn Jones wrote:
>
>> One of my contacts using freeserve,co,uk is having terrible trouble.
>> Approximately 50% of her emails get filtered out somewhere in transit.
>
>That is curious. My old email address[1] was with freeserve (.fsnet.co.uk)
>and all the spam arrived having been through their filters, usually marked
>as "***SPAM***" in the subject field plus a couple of extra X- header
>fields. I believe there was/is a facility for the user to allow them to
>delete the spam at the ISP end (before even being seen); also I believe you
>could train their filters so that false positives, and negatives, could be
>corrected.
I did discover a filter problem with Norton.
This was web page based, and we eventually traced the problem to Norton
stopping any pages with 'banner' in an image name anywhere in the html -
and this was a default!
There were similar default email filters, so look to the local receiving
system first.
Tony
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