<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 22, 2007 2:18 PM, Hal Burgiss <<a href="mailto:hal@burgiss.net">hal@burgiss.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 10:53:55AM -0800, Kent Paul Dolan wrote:<br>> [emails bounced by workplace spam filter]<br>><br>> > Any idea on where to go from here?<br><br></div>Check your sendmail logs. Any well behaved mailer daemon should give a
<br>reason. That *might* be helpful.<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> Sure. Coordinate with your workplace site postmaster<br>> and find out exactly what is triggering the spam<br>> filter to reject your emails. The problem needs to
<br>> be solved where it happens, not here. Your "silly<br>> host name" shouldn't be a problem unless it has<br>> words in it that themselves are objectionable.<br>> Naming your computer "sexxxx" is probably a show
<br>> stopper, for example.<br><br></div>And if they have something like a DUL filter in place, and you have a<br>service provider whose accounts are lumped into a DUL list. Hard to configure<br>your way around that, short of relaying out via your service provider
<br>or other legit smtp server that you have access to, which probably<br>would be wise in any case.</blockquote><div><br>Thanks for the tips. I noticed something else. If I change my hostname to something like "<a href="http://mycomputer.com">
mycomputer.com</a> mail gets sent instantly. However, if I have it set to just 'mycomputer' it takes about 30 seconds for mail to get sent.<br><br>What am I experiencing here? Should I go get some domain name from those freebie DYNDNS places and use that as my host name?
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