Igor Chudov wrote:
Just today a buyer reported that my reply to him ended up in his spam
folder. Concerned by this, I sent an email to my Yahoo! account and
that one disappeared somewhere. The one I sent to gmail, however, got
there quickly. I may be overreacting and, perhaps, it is a coincidence
that Yahoo just happens to be slow at the moment. But I am concerned.
I have a general feeling that spammers became so good at making their
messages look legitimate, that [poor] spam filters flag even
completely innocent stuff as spam.
This sending email by regular people who own their mailservers (as
opposed to gmail and such) becomes more and more risky and impossible,
in other words, email is quickly being undermined by spammers and
filters to being unreliable and flaky.
That is, now the damage from spam is not only in unwanted messages,
but also in email lost due to sloppy filtering.
I looked up my PC (75.146.106.188 on static IP from Comcast) and my
mailserver (65.182.171.162 hosted in a datacenter) and did not find
any RBL records to match.
Any thoughts?
i
Their filtering sucks because they don't spend enough time fixing the
false positives. Yahoo throws stuff in the spam directory which comes
from big well known, not spamming companies without regard. Comcast
blocks e-mail lists that are legit even when you are on their feedback
loop and them blames you when you call them as asks questions like, "Are
you filtering outgoing e-mail" and are convinced that that is the way to
remain unblocked even though the mail server isn't public and you know
100% the e-mail leaving your network is not spam. They all suck.
