Re: [anjuta-devel] Mailing List Woes

[Sébastien Granjoux <seb sfo free fr>]

Hi James,


Le 07/06/2011 08:06, James Liggett a écrit :
> For the past two weeks or so some of the messages I send to
> anjuta-devel-list get bounced with a message like the one below from my
> ISP's mail system. I have no idea why this "uceprotect" system is
> bouncing my mails. I'm not sending spam and I'm doing legitimate
> business here? Does anyone know who I would talk to about this?

I get this regularly since several months. I think uceprotect is a 
company providing black list used by gnome mailing list.

Your ISP could enter in this black list if one of its customer is 
sending a mail to some special email address of uceprotect. These 
address are unused, so normal user shouldn't use them but someone trying 
to send mail to random address could reach them and block all users 
using this smtp. Then they are several options to remove an IP address 
from this black list but most of them are not for free as it's how 
uceprotect make its own money. The opinion on this company seems mitigated.

I have been able to send mail most of the time using a different smtp 
server, using smtp-5 instead of stmp by example. But sometimes several 
are blacklisted for one week so it's a pain. You can try to complain to 
your ISP, it's the expected behavior by such company.


Best Regards,

Sébastien