Re: My ISP uses a SPAM Filter - Losing More and More E-Mail being bounced.
After much thought DoctorBill wrote: My incoming E-Mails are being rejected by some 'filter' that the ISP uses to cut down on SPAM. Client host [xx.xx.xx.xxx] blocked using dnsbl.sorbs.net (I placed the x's to not give the address.) My wireless ISP Provider says w/o that 'service' they'd get millions of spams a day. I don't like this however...who are they to be selecting what I can receive or not. I'd rather my SM Spam filter be working (which I can control). Is this practice becoming the norm ? I don't want to have to obtain a second phone line ISP just to get my E-Mail w/o it being filtered. The Tech rep is becoming truculent about it - like go somewhere else then! I have many people tell me (pissed off) that they cannot get thru to me ! I teach and my students have to be able to E-Nail me. I might even miss that message telling me I just won the Lottery. lol. DoctorBill It looks like you're using NOEL-COMMUNICATIONS-INC Verizon also has spam blockers which you can turn off through their web site (you must be a registered user). You can even set up, again in the web page, options to block senders or isps or selectively allow mail from individual senders or isps. Works pretty good. If your server doesn't give you a similar option I would look for a new isp with which to do business. -- Ed http://mysite.verizon.net/vze1zhwu/ Powered by SeaMonkey: http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: My ISP uses a SPAM Filter - Losing More and More E-Mail being bounced.
DoctorBill wrote: My incoming E-Mails are being rejected by some 'filter' that the ISP uses to cut down on SPAM. Client host [xx.xx.xx.xxx] blocked using dnsbl.sorbs.net (I placed the x's to not give the address.) Is this practice becoming the norm ? I don't want to have to obtain a second phone line ISP just to get my E-Mail w/o it being filtered. Virtually all ISPs and e-mail providers have SPAM filters. Apparently your's has just gotten a tougher one. You don't have to change your ISP, you could try Google mail or other web mail sites, to see if your mail comes through better. I use Gmail.com for a secondary mailbox and think it is excellent, however it has terrific SPAM filters. My regular ISP occasionally blocks mail from 2 friends on AOL, but I prefer my mail having the other garbage being filtered out. :) bj ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: My ISP uses a SPAM Filter - Losing More and More E-Mail being bounced.
On 8/30/10 11:35 AM, DoctorBill wrote: My incoming E-Mails are being rejected by some 'filter' that the ISP uses to cut down on SPAM. Client host [xx.xx.xx.xxx] blocked using dnsbl.sorbs.net (I placed the x's to not give the address.) My wireless ISP Provider says w/o that 'service' they'd get millions of spams a day. I don't like this however...who are they to be selecting what I can receive or not. I'd rather my SM Spam filter be working (which I can control). Is this practice becoming the norm ? I don't want to have to obtain a second phone line ISP just to get my E-Mail w/o it being filtered. The Tech rep is becoming truculent about it - like go somewhere else then! I have many people tell me (pissed off) that they cannot get thru to me ! I teach and my students have to be able to E-Nail me. I might even miss that message telling me I just won the Lottery. lol. DoctorBill My ISP -- Internet Specialties West (ISWest), a southern California regional ISP -- uses Mail Guardian, a version of CanIt by Roaring Penguin Software, Inc. Mail Guardian allows me to review what it thinks might be spam and to tweak its settings for my own account. See also my http://www.rossde.com/internet/spam.html. I connect to the Internet through a RoadRunner cable modem because no broadband provider in my area will offer other ISPs wholesale rates for broadband. ISWest hosts my E-mail and Web service. I don't even use RoadRunner's DNSs, just its connection. My only alternative for broadband was ATT DSL. But neither RoadRunner nor ATT can provide the services that ISWest provides (other than broadband). Among those services from ISWest is a user-oriented spam filter on the mail server. Also, ISWest allows me to have a shell account on my name-space on its Web server to facilitate maintenance of my Web site, including testing scripts; few other ISPs would allow me to login to their Web servers for this. -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: My ISP uses a SPAM Filter - Losing More and More E-Mail being bounced.
DoctorBill wrote: My incoming E-Mails are being rejected by some 'filter' that the ISP uses to cut down on SPAM. Client host [xx.xx.xx.xxx] blocked using dnsbl.sorbs.net (I placed the x's to not give the address.) My wireless ISP Provider says w/o that 'service' they'd get millions of spams a day. I don't like this however...who are they to be selecting what I can receive or not. I'd rather my SM Spam filter be working (which I can control). Is this practice becoming the norm ? I don't want to have to obtain a second phone line ISP just to get my E-Mail w/o it being filtered. The Tech rep is becoming truculent about it - like go somewhere else then! I have many people tell me (pissed off) that they cannot get thru to me ! I teach and my students have to be able to E-Nail me. I might even miss that message telling me I just won the Lottery. lol. DoctorBill I have found PART of the problem... My ISP is XXZ.com and one person is using XXZ.net - funny though, the dot net actually comes thru once in a while. Then I think some folk repalce the Z with an S in the ISP's name. Several things are probably going on. QUESTION: How can I find out if the XXZ.net is somehow in my system and going out as my return E-Mail address by mistake ? How can I tell what others are getting ? DoctorBill -- They have finally found the rumored engine that runs on water . . . . as long as it's gulf water. Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy. ~ Winston Churchill The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others. ~General Dwight Eisenhower Gun control is like trying to eliminate drunk driving by not allowing sober people to own cars. America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~Abraham Lincoln ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: My ISP uses a SPAM Filter - Losing More and More E-Mail being bounced.
DoctorBill wrote: DoctorBill wrote: My incoming E-Mails are being rejected by some 'filter' that the ISP uses to cut down on SPAM. Client host [xx.xx.xx.xxx] blocked using dnsbl.sorbs.net (I placed the x's to not give the address.) My wireless ISP Provider says w/o that 'service' they'd get millions of spams a day. I don't like this however...who are they to be selecting what I can receive or not. I'd rather my SM Spam filter be working (which I can control). Is this practice becoming the norm ? I don't want to have to obtain a second phone line ISP just to get my E-Mail w/o it being filtered. The Tech rep is becoming truculent about it - like go somewhere else then! I have many people tell me (pissed off) that they cannot get thru to me ! I teach and my students have to be able to E-Nail me. I might even miss that message telling me I just won the Lottery. lol. DoctorBill I have found PART of the problem... My ISP is XXZ.com and one person is using XXZ.net - funny though, the dot net actually comes thru once in a while. Then I think some folk repalce the Z with an S in the ISP's name. Several things are probably going on. QUESTION: How can I find out if the XXZ.net is somehow in my system and going out as my return E-Mail address by mistake ? How can I tell what others are getting ? DoctorBill I think I found out where this is coming from ! I checked my mail settings in Mail Newsgroup Settings under ACCOUNT SETTINGS. The Outgoing Server (SMTP) has the Address with .net instead of .com ! AND - my OLD E-Mail address is in there as a second entry. HOW do I get to that and change the one and erase the other ? ! ! ! DoctorBill -- They have finally found the rumored engine that runs on water . . . . as long as it's gulf water. Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy. ~ Winston Churchill The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others. ~General Dwight Eisenhower Gun control is like trying to eliminate drunk driving by not allowing sober people to own cars. America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~Abraham Lincoln ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: My ISP uses a SPAM Filter - Losing More and More E-Mail being bounced.
DoctorBill wrote: DoctorBill wrote: DoctorBill wrote: My incoming E-Mails are being rejected by some 'filter' that the ISP uses to cut down on SPAM. Client host [xx.xx.xx.xxx] blocked using dnsbl.sorbs.net (I placed the x's to not give the address.) My wireless ISP Provider says w/o that 'service' they'd get millions of spams a day. I don't like this however...who are they to be selecting what I can receive or not. I'd rather my SM Spam filter be working (which I can control). Is this practice becoming the norm ? I don't want to have to obtain a second phone line ISP just to get my E-Mail w/o it being filtered. The Tech rep is becoming truculent about it - like go somewhere else then! I have many people tell me (pissed off) that they cannot get thru to me ! I teach and my students have to be able to E-Nail me. I might even miss that message telling me I just won the Lottery. lol. DoctorBill I have found PART of the problem... My ISP is XXZ.com and one person is using XXZ.net - funny though, the dot net actually comes thru once in a while. Then I think some folk repalce the Z with an S in the ISP's name. Several things are probably going on. QUESTION: How can I find out if the XXZ.net is somehow in my system and going out as my return E-Mail address by mistake ? How can I tell what others are getting ? DoctorBill I think I found out where this is coming from ! I checked my mail settings in Mail Newsgroup Settings under ACCOUNT SETTINGS. The Outgoing Server (SMTP) has the Address with .net instead of .com ! AND - my OLD E-Mail address is in there as a second entry. HOW do I get to that and change the one and erase the other ? ! ! ! DoctorBill Couldn't wait for repliessearched for XXZ.net text via Windows XP Search, found the text in prefs.js, went into Prefs.js file and edited in .net. Worked. I am afraid to erase the old E-Mail address in there as there seems to be several citations of it there. How do I erase the old Address in there ? DoctorBill ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: My ISP uses a SPAM Filter - Losing More and More E-Mail being bounced.
DoctorBill wrote: DoctorBill wrote: DoctorBill wrote: DoctorBill wrote: My incoming E-Mails are being rejected by some 'filter' that the ISP uses to cut down on SPAM. Client host [xx.xx.xx.xxx] blocked using dnsbl.sorbs.net (I placed the x's to not give the address.) My wireless ISP Provider says w/o that 'service' they'd get millions of spams a day. I don't like this however...who are they to be selecting what I can receive or not. I'd rather my SM Spam filter be working (which I can control). Is this practice becoming the norm ? I don't want to have to obtain a second phone line ISP just to get my E-Mail w/o it being filtered. The Tech rep is becoming truculent about it - like go somewhere else then! I have many people tell me (pissed off) that they cannot get thru to me ! I teach and my students have to be able to E-Nail me. I might even miss that message telling me I just won the Lottery. lol. DoctorBill I have found PART of the problem... My ISP is XXZ.com and one person is using XXZ.net - funny though, the dot net actually comes thru once in a while. Then I think some folk repalce the Z with an S in the ISP's name. Several things are probably going on. QUESTION: How can I find out if the XXZ.net is somehow in my system and going out as my return E-Mail address by mistake ? How can I tell what others are getting ? DoctorBill I think I found out where this is coming from ! I checked my mail settings in Mail Newsgroup Settings under ACCOUNT SETTINGS. The Outgoing Server (SMTP) has the Address with .net instead of .com ! AND - my OLD E-Mail address is in there as a second entry. HOW do I get to that and change the one and erase the other ? ! ! ! DoctorBill Couldn't wait for repliessearched for XXZ.net text via Windows XP Search, found the text in prefs.js, went into Prefs.js file and edited in .net. Worked. I am afraid to erase the old E-Mail address in there as there seems to be several citations of it there. How do I erase the old Address in there ? DoctorBill All this doesn't matter...blew out SM ! tried restoring from MozBackup, but it didn't restore what I had saved a month ago. I don't know why. MozBackup works very oddly on restore all I get is Default I found the file I wanted to restore, but how the hell do you CHOOSE it and make it run ? DoctorBill ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
