(Solved) Kind of OT - Error when forwarding spam to Centurylink

[Chris]

On Thu, 2019-08-22 at 10:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 10:09:59 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:24:05 -0500, Chris wrote:
> > > I also Bcc'd myself  
> > 
> > If I Bcc to myself when using some ISPs, the mails I "receive"
> > contain
> > intact readable Bcc headers! IOW the mails Bcc'ed to myself are
> > actually just copies, since if a mail was really sent via Bcc, the
> > received mail wouldn't contain a Bcc header anymore.
> > 
> > To ensure that the spam isn't already in their data base, send the
> > mail
> > to yourself by using an email address of another provider.
> > 
> > If you should have very, very, especial super-good luck they
> > really passed it on to the appropriate teams, IOW to the
> > technicians.
> > In Germany even the ISPs you pay don't care much about their
> > customers
> > and regarding some issues you even can't go to law, since the
> > general
> > terms and conditions might mention, that the internet service is
> > just a
> > gift, there's no legal right to get a working gift. What you pay
> > for
> > is not the gift, your monthly fee is for the service to get
> > advertisings and the fee is even not for the rooter as a whole,
> > it's
> > just for the screw in the upper right corner of the router. The
> > service
> > is for Windows users only. As long as you receive advertisings and
> > as
> > long as the screw in the upper right corner of the router isn't
> > corroded, they fulfil the contract. Assuming the screw in the upper
> > right corner of the router should be corroded and you used the
> > router
> > to access the Internet with a Linux machine, you need to pay for
> > the
> > corroded screw, since the screw of the router is made for usage
> > with
> > Windows only.
> > 
> > You probably consented to cover the price of your ISP's guitar
> > lessons,
> > see between 1:10 and 1:29 of
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98BbUEAaFgw .
> 
> And! Are you using the original cables of the ISP's router? Much
> likely
> the service fails, due to usage of not supplied cables ;). There is a
> reason that the original cables are already way too short, to place
> the
> router on a little table close to the wall box.
> 
After showing CenturyLink the EVO debug output when forwarding spam
using my Gmail account and it getting accepted by their servers they
have apparently found and fixed the issue, at least for the moment. I
can now forward it using my embarqmail address.

-- 
Chris
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