At 08:46 PM 2/24/2011, Horace Heffner wrote:
I don't think the problem is with eskimo.com. I am getting no email from Abd from two different lists, and I sent a personal message to Abd asking for a reply. I didn't get a reply, so I assume it got swallowed up somewhere as well.
Swallowed by my to-do list, which isn't even a list any more, it's a huge pile.
I called my ISP and the support person said it wasn't them. Very mysterious. I have possibly narrowed the problem down to my system, but am waiting for Abd to post a message so I can do my check on this.
I've been posting. Seems that it's getting through, I get them echoed back from the list, and responses.
This kind of thing usually happens from aggressive spam filtering. I've asked my ISP to not filter my mail at all, and as a result, I get a huge amount of spam, which I attack with Mailwasher. But once in a while they get so much spam that they implement filtering anyway.
I checked my mail server IP against blacklists. I checked my ISP IP against blacklists. Bingo. My Verizon IP is on a blacklist. Spamhaus-ZEN. This appears to be policy-based, because I'm using an external mail server, not Verizon's SMTP server.
However, the mail is getting to Eskimo, and Eskimo does not echo my IP in the mail going to the list. If you are not seeing this mail, Horace, it's not IP filtering. It's on the archive, as you noted. There would have to be some other filter stopping it from getting to you.
