--- Professional Software Engineering
<PSE-L(_at_)mail(_dot_)professional(_dot_)org> wrote:
At 23:07 2003-07-16 -0700, James Burlington wrote:
Any email from me to the list is considered spam,
can
someone explain why?
Nope, esp. since you're not providing the message
you're receiving from
which you're getting the impression that your mail
is considered
spam. From a recent post by someone else
complaining of having had their
mail queued for admin approval is representative,
then the bounce would
have had a line such as:
Your mail to 'procmail' with the subject
Followed by a brief explanation of the reasoning.
That might include a
SPECIFIC reference to "suspicious header". Subject:
and From: are headers,
but beyond those two, there's a lot of headers you
don't exert much direct
control over.
Well, I sent a message with these headers.
From: James Burlington <james_burlington(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com>
To: procmail(_at_)lists(_dot_)RWTH-Aachen(_dot_)DE
Subject: Couple of Questions
Message-ID: <3F1462E2(_dot_)7070803(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:24:02 -0700
Got a response
Your mail to 'procmail' with the subject
*****SPAM***** Procmail Questions
Is being held until the list moderator can review it
for approval.
The reason it is being held:
Message has a suspicious header
Email the owner of the list, got the exact same
response.
It looks like SPAM Assassin flagged it as spam.
Another helpful person emailed me saying he sees it as
probably coming from an open relay.
After checking it seems that what I usualy use is
considered SPAM by SPAM Assassin.
I use Netscape email client along with yahoopops to
retrieve my email and send through my regular SMTP
server at work.
I sent the message that got through, using yahoo's web
interface which I don't like, and the list had it.
If this gets through then that confirms it, although
why would it have my work IP as an open relay is still
beyond me.
Contacting list administrator at his email address
is
useless since probably he is seeing a spam alert
instead of a message.
BUT, if you're capable of posting to this list
today, perhaps from an
alternate account, then you should be able to
contact the listadmin via
that same address. OR, if you're using the original
address, and this
message has passed through without generating a
bounce, then why shouldn't
it reach the admin.
If this message makes it, then I probably figured it
out, and will have to deal with reading from my usual
account and post from here.
Thank you for taking the time to read and suggest.
I'm not familiar with the list software used on this
list, but IME, the
listowner address is rarely subjected to ALL the
same filters that the list
submission address is.
Should the listadmin be reading this - I applaud the
efforts to reduce the
amount of "drive by" spams sent to the procmail
list.
We are all here to disucss hwo to fight spam and
filter and organize email, I don't complain about
that, but was kind of surprized to see my messages
marked as spam.
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