firefly opened this issue on Apr 13, 2002 ยท 28 posts
firefly posted Sat, 13 April 2002 at 7:51 PM
Gee, sounds like all the free mailers are looking for ways to make money. Hotmail is starting to lock accounts if they exceed 2mb and sends an advert for a larger box if you pay! Anyways, we put the login through a "real" email account and have discovered what the problem is. There actually seems to be two problems. Mail RFC's state there are specific required fields in an email. I believe they are: from, to, date and message ID. At least these are the ones that most mail servers require. Problem #1: the ebot script does not use the "to" field. A lot of mail servers and services require this as unspecified email is the first to get filtered. Problem #2: the word ebot is one word that is filtered hugely from various mail servers, another item filtered out for first line defense against spam. I expect this problem will grow given the trend to filter increasing amounts of spam. An idea worth thinking about would be changing the name ebot@renderosity to signup@renderosity and etc... Also, get the script to add a "to" line. Ok, you can wake up now (big grin)