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Originally Posted by jdogsbody
Is it, then, that the recipients of my emails from wanadoo/orange are to blame for not replying to my emails (the ones that get through, that is!) on a regular basis???
I am getting mail returned again after 3 days or so - I have no way of knowing if they`ve reached their intended destination until I have a reply- or a return.
I`ve been able to get mail through by sending messages via ebay, bluemountain cards, etc - and the odd stray one has found its way through - but it really is a ridiculous situation in this day and age when technology is supposed to be so advanced! Perhaps we should go back to phone calls and snail mail!!
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You are seeing the same symptoms, which suggests that either NTL itself is blacklisted, or a relay the email message passes through is blacklisted. Whilst it's likely that a relay is to blame (so traffic in both directions through it will be affected), it would be ironic indeed if the people blacklisting email hosts were themselves on the blacklist! I've had emails from beeb.com dumped because a Demon relay the messages passed through was on the blacklist. The Beeb's fault of course.
The reason that some occasionally get through is probably to do with the route the message takes - i.e. occasionally it isn't routed via the blacklisted relay. But as you say, it does make a complete mockery of the email system. The ten or so spam emails NTL traps and puts in my spam folder every day get through unscathed, whilst genuine emails are thrown away "because a computer somewhere on the route it took has been forwarding spam". So as well as wrecking the email system, it doesn't even stop spam. And how do you define spam in the first place? I've had perfectly genuine emails from people in my address book dumped in the spam folder by NTL before now.
