Speaking of e-mail

[Lawrence Beyer]

I had used my domain name for an e-mail address, but I
had problems. I sent an e-mail to someone at a college and
it wasn't accepted. Later I sent an e-mail to someone else,
ant that too wasn't accepted. The problem is Phishing and
identity theft. My mail had to go through the server of the
mail service that is used by my domain hosting service.
That previously wasn't a problem, but now a lot places
no longer accept bounced mail. If you are big enough to
have your own server, no problem, but if it has to go
through somebody else's server, it might be rejected. Now
I use my ISP's mail service (Comcast), for my e-mail for my
websites, and no problem. This information is for newbies
who might find it helpful. I hope I explained it properly and
it makes sense.

(e-mail address removed)

 

[Trevor Lawrence]

I had used my domain name for an e-mail address, but I
had problems. I sent an e-mail to someone at a college and
it wasn't accepted. Later I sent an e-mail to someone else,
ant that too wasn't accepted. The problem is Phishing and
identity theft. My mail had to go through the server of the
mail service that is used by my domain hosting service.
That previously wasn't a problem, but now a lot places
no longer accept bounced mail. If you are big enough to
have your own server, no problem, but if it has to go
through somebody else's server, it might be rejected. Now
I use my ISP's mail service (Comcast), for my e-mail for my
websites, and no problem. This information is for newbies
who might find it helpful. I hope I explained it properly and
it makes sense.

(e-mail address removed)

Well, I certainly use my ISP email service and it works for me, except that
I get a lot of spam.

One can attract more spam just by posting your email address in a public
place (even in this newsgroup). This is a d*mned nuisance because it would
be nice to just say "This is where I am if you want to talk to me" without
all these spammers finding your address and posting cr*p messages.

 

[P@tty Ayers]

I had used my domain name for an e-mail address, but I
had problems. I sent an e-mail to someone at a college and
it wasn't accepted. Later I sent an e-mail to someone else,
ant that too wasn't accepted. The problem is Phishing and
identity theft. My mail had to go through the server of the
mail service that is used by my domain hosting service.
That previously wasn't a problem, but now a lot places
no longer accept bounced mail. If you are big enough to
have your own server, no problem, but if it has to go
through somebody else's server, it might be rejected. Now
I use my ISP's mail service (Comcast), for my e-mail for my
websites, and no problem. This information is for newbies
who might find it helpful. I hope I explained it properly and
it makes sense.

The problem isn't phishing and identity theft; it's the way ISPs handle the
problems of spam, phishing, etc.

Keep in mind that your emails still need to go through the recipient's mail
server, and that lots of web hosts and ISPs (those who run those mail
servers) will block an entire domain (such as Comcast, for instance) simply
because of a few complaints about spam originating from it (which have
nothing to do with you).

So switching your own mail server isn't necessarily going to solve all email
problems, unfortunately.

 

[ANONYMOUS]

This is to do with authentication of emails from "certain" domains. If
your address is: (e-mail address removed) and you try to use some other
ISP's email server to send your mails using that email address then the
recipient's ISP may classify your email as spam because your address and
the senders domain don't agree. YAHOO does it all the time and even
hotmail has started doing it.

The name of comcast isn't particularly good among us in the UK because
we receive lots of spams from apparently sent by comcast customers. The
spam's header details confirms this. for example you have used
comcast.net as your real email address and your IP (68.82.99.178) is
also comcast's and so this is not a problem because you can be traced
easily if you spam anybody.

Hope this helps.