Hotmail/MSN is Refusing Forum Emails

admin · Post by **b0b** » 13 Oct 2007 8:49 am

The Forum sends out a lot of email notifications. Today I received a whole bunch of returns from people with Hotmail or MSN accounts. Apparently someone reported a Forum email as spam, and they are now blocking ALL emails from the Forum to ALL of their customers. Here's a sample:

Connected to 65.54.244.232 but sender was rejected.
Remote host said: 550 Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail for policy reasons.
A block has been placed against your IP address because we have received
complaints concerning mail coming from that IP address. We recommend enrolling
in our Junk E-Mail Reporting Program (JMRP), a free program intended to help
senders remove unwanted recipients from their e-mail lists. For enrollment
instructions, please refer to: http://postmaster.live.com/Services.aspx#JMRPP.
For additional information about Microsoft's technical guidelines, please refer
to: http://postmaster.live.com/Guidelines.aspx

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

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Subject: Topic Reply Notification - Using pedal A , with F lever on E9
To: Undisclosed-recipients:;
Reply-to: quasar@b0b.com
From: quasar@b0b.com
Return-Path: quasar@b0b.com
Message-ID: <17710cf0d47181b9b83f969f66810da5@bb.steelguitarforum.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
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Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:49:15 -0700
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: PHP
X-MimeOLE: Produced By phpBB2

Hello,

You are receiving this email because you are watching the topic, "Using pedal A
, with F lever on E9" at The Steel Guitar Forum. This topic has received a reply
since your last visit. You can use the following link to view the replies made,
no more notifications will be sent until you visit the topic.

http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopi ... 25#1029325

If you no longer wish to watch this topic you can either click the "Stop
watching this topic link" found at the bottom of the topic above, or by clicking
the following link:

http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopi ... atch=topic

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This email was sent automatically by the Steel Guitar Forum.
Please do not reply.

So, if you have a Hotmail or MSN account and you're not getting Forum emails, now you know why.

John Sluszny · Post by **John Sluszny** » 14 Oct 2007 11:38 am

admin · Post by **b0b** » 14 Oct 2007 3:47 pm

I just discovered that WebTV has also flagged us as a spammer.

Colm Chomicky · Post by **Colm Chomicky** » 15 Oct 2007 3:22 pm

I am going to guess is that there are old email addresses that forum members may have abandoned. Eventually, some of these lapsed addresses get picked up by a new user. They receive an email from the forum that seems unsolicited and report as spam.

Also there are people who actually sign up to a listserver, and forget, and then incorrectly claim the subscribed service is spam.

admin · Post by **b0b** » 15 Oct 2007 6:28 pm

They seem to have reconsidered. I applied to their spam prevention program, and I think that might have done the trick.

Please, people, never flag a Forum email as spam. It can cause a lot of trouble for all of us.

John Sluszny · Post by **John Sluszny** » 16 Oct 2007 5:38 am

Yes,it's working !

admin · Post by **b0b** » 24 Oct 2007 10:15 am

The problem persists. Please don't click the notification box when you post if you have a Hotmail email address.

Jim Bob Sedgwick · Post by **Jim Bob Sedgwick** » 26 Oct 2007 5:21 pm

I have a hotmail account. have had no problems, so far.