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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 01:30pm on 2003-06-13

So I get voice mail from my employer, who's had precious little for me to do so far this year, but I'd been expecting that situation to change in the past few weeks...

His email to me is bouncing, apparently because of the latest spam-avoidance technique installed somewhere along the line, at an MTA level. He said my ISP was rejecting it; they say they're not, and it's probably some point in between that's causing the problem, but want to look at complete headers. Of course, getting a copy of those headers is a bit of a challenge right now.

And most of our communication is via email. And he's about to go out of town for a spell.

(Apparently the problem is with senders acting as their own MTA instead of relaying through their ISP's mail gateway, or something like that.)

I've gone from overlooking one of his messages because it was buried in a stack of spam (a month or two ago), to not getting his messages at all in the name of spam-avoidance (but not noticing any reduction in the amount of spam). *grrrr*

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posted by [identity profile] vvalkyri.livejournal.com at 10:23am on 2003-06-13
what's MTA? Don't quite see it as having to do with Boston trains...
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 10:33am on 2003-06-13
MTA == Mail Transfer Agent (e.g. Sendmail, qmail, etc.)

MDA == Mail Delivery Agent (e.g. Procmail, though Sendmail often does this job as well)

MUA == Mail User Agent (e.g. Mutt, Pine, Elm, Netscape, Outlook, Eudora, /usr/bin/mail...)
 
posted by (anonymous) at 04:42pm on 2003-06-13
SMTP == Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (originally defined in RFC821)


RFC == Request For Comments, the main type of standards document for Internet protocols


IEIEO ==
Actual PowerPC opcode
(http://publibn.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixassem/alangref/eieio.htm)


- Vicky

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posted by [personal profile] redbird at 11:00am on 2003-06-13
There's a bit in today's New Scientist, in the Feedback column, about an ISP that went way overboard in spam blocking: they (briefly, it's already been fixed) blocked any mail containing the letter P.
 

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posted by [identity profile] coginthenose.livejournal.com at 12:45pm on 2003-06-13
u need a email box(s) or a place to move mail to let me know
Paonia
 
posted by [identity profile] butterfluff.livejournal.com at 01:03pm on 2003-06-13
Get a email address (yahoo or hotmail), give it only to him, check it regularly. It will save you a lot of headache/heartache.

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