ciphergoth: (bam)
[personal profile] ciphergoth
What's the best way to check what might be causing my mail to end up in spam filters? According to this search I'm not blacklisted:

http://www.mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=blacklist%3a80.68.89.15

but I've been finding it pretty difficult to reach people lately, and starting to think some sort of spam filtering might be responsible. Any ideas?

Date: 2010-03-09 01:14 pm (UTC)
reddragdiva: (Default)
From: [personal profile] reddragdiva
What SMTP server is it going out through?

I was most annoyed that I couldn't forward catchall mail to my gmail just via my domain registrations, because Google had gotten so much spam via 123-reg that they just rejected everything from there. A*se.

Date: 2010-03-09 01:20 pm (UTC)
babysimon: (Default)
From: [personal profile] babysimon
Mail me?

Date: 2010-03-09 01:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ciphergoth.livejournal.com
Directly from my SMTP server on smtp.ciphergoth.org

Date: 2010-03-09 01:30 pm (UTC)
reddragdiva: (Default)
From: [personal profile] reddragdiva
Send a test mail to dgerard@gmail.com and see what happens.

Date: 2010-03-09 06:38 pm (UTC)
reddragdiva: (Default)
From: [personal profile] reddragdiva
well, that worked ...

Date: 2010-03-09 01:30 pm (UTC)
reddragdiva: (Default)
From: [personal profile] reddragdiva
(and don't mention viagra)

Date: 2010-03-09 01:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mistdog.livejournal.com
I run spamassassin on my SMTP server, kept up to date by Ubuntu. If you'd like to email me (jon@serf.org) I can tell you what SA rules it triggers.
Edited Date: 2010-03-09 01:59 pm (UTC)

Date: 2010-03-09 02:00 pm (UTC)
babysimon: (Default)
From: [personal profile] babysimon
We've tested it against SpamHaus and (non-Bayes) SpamAssassin here and doesn't seem to be either of those.

Date: 2010-03-09 06:37 pm (UTC)
reddragdiva: (Default)
From: [personal profile] reddragdiva
Domains on 123-reg, MX set to their MX to catch-all forward to dgerard@gmail.com. Gmail decides they've had too much spam through 123-reg and won't even talk to it. I have to divert my mail via my ISP account.

Date: 2010-03-09 10:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexmc.livejournal.com
I use 123-reg for my domains and have MX set up to go to Google directly. Is that an option for you?

Date: 2010-03-09 10:27 pm (UTC)
reddragdiva: (Default)
From: [personal profile] reddragdiva
Ooh, could be good!

Date: 2010-03-09 10:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexmc.livejournal.com
Ah - forgot to mention. This is through Google Apps... Slightly different from the firstname.lastname@gmail.com

Date: 2010-03-09 10:34 pm (UTC)
reddragdiva: (Default)
From: [personal profile] reddragdiva
Link to howto?

Date: 2010-03-10 06:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexmc.livejournal.com
Basically when you set up Google Apps for a domain so that Google actually does handle being a mail server for your domain it tells you specific MX records to put into DNS. This lets it know that you genuinely do own that domain and that it *should* accept mail for it.

I've given up on doing any kind of spam filtering myself and let Google do it for me.

I personally find the free version quite satisfactory - but of course they are trying to sell you more space for more users etc...
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html

Date: 2010-03-09 01:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] purplerabbits.livejournal.com
we have pretty fierce spam filters at work if you want to try me there...

Date: 2010-03-09 03:31 pm (UTC)
calum: (Default)
From: [personal profile] calum
Ive got some spamassassin and other filters set up if you want to test me (calum@livejournal.com works)..

Can tell you why if it triggers

Date: 2010-03-09 03:39 pm (UTC)
lovingboth: (Default)
From: [personal profile] lovingboth
I don't bother with spamassassin, just greylisting. You can try both ian@ username.com and username at gmail.com - if one gets through but the other doesn't, that tells us something.

Profile

ciphergoth: (Default)
Paul Crowley

January 2025

S M T W T F S
   1234
5678 91011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031 

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jul. 29th, 2025 01:43 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios