Why is this considered spam, and what can I do about it?
This happens to me quite often. I send a harmless email, but it bounces back because someone decide it was spam.
Below is the content of my email, and the response back.
Why is it considered spam?
The response says I should send an email to the postmaster. What postmaster? What is the postmaster's address?
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The problem on the mail server has been identified and fixed.
I apologize for the inconvenience.
You will begin receive the OSS Nightly Stats Newsletter Sunday evening.
Just a reminder, the newsletter is also posted on the website each night at http://oss.cc/newsletter.
Good trading!
--Rob
Futures, Forex and Option trading involves substantial risk, and may not be suitable for everyone. You can lose everything! Trading should only be done with true risk capital. Past performance either actual or hypothetical is not necessarily indicative of future performance.
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This is the mail system at host mc.internetmailserver.net.
I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.
For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster.
If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the attached returned message.
The mail system
<xxxxx@xxx>: host mx.cableone.net[69.168.106
[P4] Message blocked due to spam content in the message. (in reply to end
of DATA command)
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Below is the content of my email, and the response back.
Why is it considered spam?
The response says I should send an email to the postmaster. What postmaster? What is the postmaster's address?
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Start my email
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The problem on the mail server has been identified and fixed.
I apologize for the inconvenience.
You will begin receive the OSS Nightly Stats Newsletter Sunday evening.
Just a reminder, the newsletter is also posted on the website each night at http://oss.cc/newsletter.
Good trading!
--Rob
Futures, Forex and Option trading involves substantial risk, and may not be suitable for everyone. You can lose everything! Trading should only be done with true risk capital. Past performance either actual or hypothetical is not necessarily indicative of future performance.
3262
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End my email
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Begin Response (I hid the real recipients email address)
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This is the mail system at host mc.internetmailserver.net.
I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.
For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster.
If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the attached returned message.
The mail system
<xxxxx@xxx>: host mx.cableone.net[69.168.106
[P4] Message blocked due to spam content in the message. (in reply to end
of DATA command)
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End Response
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CompProbSolv
There could be a number of reasons. Is your email a private domain (not gmail, yahoo, etc.)? If so, have you set up SPF and DKIM and confirmed that they are working?
As CompProbSolv mentioned, debug your entire MTA setup.
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/29165628/Sending-Email-by-getting-email-address-from-database.html provides a basic checklist.
Be sure to use the Dmarcian or MXToolBox tools to verify your setup is correct.
Then inject/queue this message for your MTA to deliver...
Where $email is some email handled by the sending MTA.
This will return you a message showing how Mailbox Providers rate correctness of your SPF + DKIM Signing + DMARC policy.
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/29165628/Sending-Email-by-getting-email-address-from-database.html provides a basic checklist.
Be sure to use the Dmarcian or MXToolBox tools to verify your setup is correct.
Then inject/queue this message for your MTA to deliver...
From: $email
To: check-auth2@verifier.port25.com
Subject: SPF/DKIM/DMARC Test Email Message
Delivery tech verification test message...Where $email is some email handled by the sending MTA.
This will return you a message showing how Mailbox Providers rate correctness of your SPF + DKIM Signing + DMARC policy.
The recipient (or recipient's server) gets to decide what is and is not spam. Some mail servers are very restrictive. They can decide that anything in your email is spam.
The disclaimer at the bottom pretty well matches a lot of stock pump and dump emails. Bayesian filters will trigger on that.
The disclaimer at the bottom pretty well matches a lot of stock pump and dump emails.
I not only agree, but if that had hit our server your sending ip would (depending on frequency) eventually been added to our internal DNSRBL
The recipient should be able to add your sending address to their white-list (assuming they want to receive what you're sending)
This would (normally) bypass the spam filter for anything received from that address
If they don't have this ability, they will need to reach out to their email provider (which appears to be their ISP) and see if they can add the exception
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Probably a repetition of the above, but for many mailservers, the following words / expressions will be scored very highly as being indicative of spam:
Futures
Option trading
substantial risk
lose everything
risk capital
Past performance
future performance
I realise you are presumably only sending to people who have asked for the newsletter, but you are probably getting scored as spam due to the vast majority of emails containing those words / expressions being actual spam.
If you can re-write to remove most or ideally all of those, it would probably help.
Alan.
Futures
Option trading
substantial risk
lose everything
risk capital
Past performance
future performance
I realise you are presumably only sending to people who have asked for the newsletter, but you are probably getting scored as spam due to the vast majority of emails containing those words / expressions being actual spam.
If you can re-write to remove most or ideally all of those, it would probably help.
Alan.
A reasonable test would be to edit out all of the text of the message, replace it with "this is a test", and re-send it to a recipient whose email server rejected it previously. If the new message is rejected, that implies that either you have been blacklisted by the recipient's email server or that there is something else about the message that is the problem.
If it is not rejected, send the original again. If that is rejected, content is clearly the issue.
If it is not rejected, send the original again. If that is rejected, content is clearly the issue.
actually using an email with "This is a Test", is a major filter that some organizations use to filter you out and block the email as spam. Use a test email but just dont use the words.... "This is a test" either in the body or the title of the email. I worked in an organization that blocked any email that Says: This is a Test.
the postmaster address is postmaster@remotedomain.com
most said addresses will not respond.
your email is classified as spam because it is a spam indeed.
most said addresses will not respond.
your email is classified as spam because it is a spam indeed.
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Thank you everyone for your help. Unfortunately, I suffered a bit of a medical emergency, and I'm a bit out of it. I will get back to this issue in a few days.
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