sent an email to myself, but it bounced, telling me "Message rejected as UBE (spam)." Luckily, it was from myself, so it bounced back to me.
Aug 19, 2009
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Roberto Bonini,
Mark Trapp,
Bret Taylor,
Paul Buchheit,
Felicia Yue,
Ben Hanten,
Sebastian,
Alex Scrivener,
Yusuf Ibili,
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UBE?
- τorƍue
Unsolicited Bulk Email (i.e. spam)
- Mark Trapp
I think you should turn yourself in to the spamcops :)
- Richard Walker
I was thinking about the delicious Filipino purple yam... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- τorƍue
Haha -- "Message rejected as purple yam" is way more interesting.
- Tom Stocky
FYI, it gave specific reasons as well: "HTML_MESSAGE, MISSING_SUBJECT, SPF_NEUTRAL, TVD_SPACE_RATIO (in reply to end of DATA command)." I was just sending a link to myself from my phone, so I guess the mail server didn't like the link-only, subject-free, space-less email. (I'm not exactly sure what "SPF neutral" means.)
- Tom Stocky
It means the email domain neither rejects nor explicitly allows the MTA (sending mail server) to send mail on the domain's behalf. Likely it's one of three things: 1) the SPF record explicitly states not to test the MTA, 2) you don't have an SPF record set up for that domain, or 3) the SPF record doesn't mention the MTA.
- Mark Trapp
well, good ..but that's almost nothing ...... http://live.com hotmail, now http://bing.com, is filtering as suspicious their own live.com communications emails :] ..... at least live.com no more has link to itself on their page :] .. there is live.com no more .... oh well ... internet can be struggle for even the most intelligent of us
- pb:
@τorƍue - "UBE" = "unsolicited bulk email".
- Andrew C (✔)