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Two Negatives Equals a Positive

March 5, 2007 in Other
Short URL: http://boyink.me/s/3169

Spam prevention just gets silly at times.  We have DSL through Yahoo! SBC.  In order to fight spam, they require that I use their outgoing SMTP mail server.  Fine.

My webhost also has a spam protection system as part of the email package they provide.  When it sees email coming from outside the domain but still asscociated with the domain (say, for example, a boyink.com email message coming from a Yahoo! SBC mail server), it’s considered - you guessed it - spam.

So the end result of two preventative measures in fighting spam is that I cannot email my wife, upstairs, as another Boyink.com user without the email being trapped in quarrantine as a spam message.

Lovely.

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  1. Dave J. on March 05, 2007

    You can change your port number to use your boyink.com email accounts. I set that up for our church. Try 587

  2. Boyink (Author) on March 05, 2007

    Yeah - I’m working through it with the web host - at first try that port didn’t work.  I’ve also logged a request with SBC to remove the SMTP filter.

    Just frustrating.

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