[MAMS] Test to get around outgoing filters.

[Gerald N. Johnson]

I was testing www.qth.net and www.qsl.net mailing lists. My ISP has 
changed from Barracuda to redcondor.net for spam filtering at the mail 
server. Barracuda didn't filter outgoing if the user signed in with a 
secure procedure. Redcondor processes ALL outgoing and the ISP can't 
change that. Redcondor has begun quarantining by text content and count 
of URLs present. I spent more than an hour with my ISP's customer 
service to find out there's nothing they or I can do. So I came up with 
a wild alternative. I still have use of another mail server with 
Barracuda so I set up a user in my e-mail program (Thunderbird) that 
connects to that alternative server (that I've used for decades, but 
very little lately because its not always on line) for outgoing but 
keeps my new e-mail address that I'm subscribed to in many mail lists. 
The subterfuge works without spam filtering as you see in the post attached.

I used MASM because testing with the customer service guy got 4 copies 
of my post to the MW list sent to the MW list as he and I tested. I 
don't know how long this will work, one other alternative will be to 
subscribe to each list with two e-mail addresses, one for my outgoing 
and one for incoming. Then disable e-mail from the address I'm sending 
from. I have had that with the Collins list for a long time so I know 
that can work, but my present scheme was much simpler to set up.

So I abused MW and MAMS today to check and clear up my outgoing spam 
filtering that should be fixed at the ISP. I left that message very 
clearly in plain language with the customer service guy and refrained 
from using drill sergeant language that I also have been trained in 
courtesy of the US tax payers.

So far it has worked.

73, Jerry, K0CQ

On 4/30/2014 7:25 PM, Zack Widup wrote:
> Hi Jerry,
>
> I don't think there's a problem with this list. Activity has just been kind
> of low.
>
> 73, Zack W9SZ
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Gerald N. Johnson<geraldj at netins.net>wrote:
>
>> My current papers are at:>  http://www.geraldj.networkiowa.com/papers/
>>
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>> I'm having great problems with the outgoing filter quarantining on URLs so
>> in this scheme I'm putting in several.
>>
>> 73, Jerry, K0CQ
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