Hi,

I have tried a few times to register an email address (or a domain, to be specific) in my mailhosts list, however it always failed me. It always says like this:



Note: the wx.... are my real email ID; I hid it intentionally (I'll reveal that later if necessary). I guess I kind of know what the problem is, but I can't solve this without the help of spamcop folks. The mail server on my campus was just equipped with a kind of "spam hump". It seems to me that this requires the sending party to "retry" the sending a few times for the first (few) email(s). Once that party/domain becomes trusted, it would remove this "retry" phase. (This sounds like what softhome.net tried to implement a while ago--which I hated very much.) The logic is that spammer engines would not do that due to the high cost of the retrying; but I guess now even the spammers do that too? (CMIIW).

Now unless I get help, I would not be able to register that email address/domain. And this means that I can't do mailhosts, since all my emails from other accounts are delivered to this wm.edu account. Could anyone please...help me?

Thanks,
Wirawan

If greylisting is indeed the issue, retrying the operation within the time period would solve the issue.

Hi, Wirawan,
...If StevenUnderwood's suggestion doesn't work, I am afraid you'll have to take it up with the SpamCop Deputies (e-mail deputies[at]admin.spamcop.net).
...Good luck!

OK. I have retried a few times, something like 3-4 times. It was painful, but it worked. Thanks Steven for the suggestion!

Wirawan